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Yet it was only for this right of private judgment, for this independence of another man’s control in religious concernments, that the godlike champions of religious liberty perilled themselves and perished.
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Mann reflects on the sacrifices made by champions of religious liberty for the right to personal judgment.
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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.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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