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Collins, of Georgia, offering the use of the army and navy of the United States to catch one poor white woman, Ellen Crafts, and her husband, and return them to bondage.
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Mann highlights the government's offer to use military force to capture escaped slaves, illustrating the brutality of slavery.
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