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In the first place, I believe the constitution not only authorizes but requires a trial by jury, in the case of alleged fugitive slaves, when claimed in free states.
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Mann asserts that the Constitution mandates a jury trial for alleged fugitive slaves in free states, emphasizing legal rights.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
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