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This is an honor that no rival can ever snatch from her brow.
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Mann emphasizes the enduring honor of Massachusetts for its pioneering role in abolishing slavery.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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 north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
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