Could they have intended that the mere fact of claiming a man as a slave,--which claim might be made against a freeman as well as against a slave,--should be sufficient to deprive him of this ancient muniment of the subject’s liberty?
Mann questions the implications of claiming someone as a slave and its impact on personal liberty.
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He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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