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The law, as it stands, is as much a slave-making as it is a slave-catching law.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The law, as it stands, is as much a slave-making as it is a slave-catching law.”
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Mann asserts that the law in question serves both to capture and to create slaves.
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