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If difficult for a slave claimant, from Texas, to prove title to his slave in Massachusetts, how infinitely more difficult for a citizen of Massachusetts to prove title to himself in Texas.
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Mann illustrates the difficulty for a free person to prove their freedom in a hostile legal environment.
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The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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