Since the Declaration of Independence, the number of slaves in this country has increased from less than five hundred thousand to more than three millions; and before the close of this century, their descendants will increase to more than thrice three millions.
Mann discusses the alarming increase in the number of enslaved individuals in America since the founding of the nation.
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Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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