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That ordinance has been cherished in our memories, it has been taught to our children, and we have displayed it before the world both as the pledge and the promise of our devotion to liberty.
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Mann highlights the enduring value of the ordinance of 1787 as a symbol of liberty and commitment to freedom.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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.
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.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
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