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Whatever any one may hold to be the social relation between free women and slave women, yet before God and Christ, and all the holy angels, they belong to the same sisterhood of the human race.
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Mann asserts the shared humanity of all women, regardless of their social status, in the context of slavery.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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