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And what is the object for which we are willing to make this awful sacrifice?
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Mann questions the justification for the sacrifices made in the context of slavery, urging reflection on their purpose.
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This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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