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But the fiend of a slave trader was inexorable.
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Mann condemns the ruthless nature of slave traders who prioritize profit over human life.
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Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
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.
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