On the record
In the complexion of the slave, we read the horrid history of the guilt of the enslavers.
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Mann reflects on the visible legacy of guilt carried by enslavers as seen in the complexion of their slaves.
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Has the fact never yet come to the knowledge of the magistrates of the District of Columbia, that the constitution of the United States declares that “excessive bail shall not be required”?
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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