You and I, sir, must help pay the costs of sending a fellow-being into bondage; when we are under no more constitutional obligation to do so, than to pay the expenses of a slave dealer who ships his cargoes direct from Africa.
Mann argues against the moral obligation to fund the return of enslaved individuals, comparing it to supporting the slave trade.
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