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Would such be the case of a kidnapped freeman?
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Mann questions the assumptions made about the treatment of kidnapped individuals, highlighting the need for a more realistic understanding of their plight.
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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.
Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
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.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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