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It is not, however, the existence of slavery, but its extension, we now intend to avert.
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Mann emphasizes the importance of preventing the expansion of slavery rather than just its existence.
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Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
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.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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