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Enslavement and liberty being incompatible, when he suffers the first, though but for an hour, he is deprived of the last.
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Mann states that enslavement and liberty cannot coexist, emphasizing the loss of freedom even for a brief period.
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The institution of slavery is against natural right.
Her lowland neighbors of Maryland and the Carolinas were not far behind at the seeding; nor are they far behind at the ingathering of desolation.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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