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By authority of Congress, the city of Washington is the Congo of America.
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Mann describes Washington, D.C. as a symbol of American slavery, likening it to the Congo.
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Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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