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Slavery, being a crime founded upon human passions, can go wherever those passions are unrestrained.
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Mann highlights the moral implications of slavery, emphasizing its roots in human passions.
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It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Her lowland neighbors of Maryland and the Carolinas were not far behind at the seeding; nor are they far behind at the ingathering of desolation.
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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