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Do our laws and our institutions seek to blot out and abolish the image of God in the human soul?
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Mann questions whether laws are designed to erase the divine image within individuals under slavery.
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They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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 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.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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