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He has not a right to his flesh and bones, so that he can cut up the former for dog’s meat, and grind the latter for compost.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann argues against the notion that a master has absolute rights over a slave's body, highlighting the inhumanity of such a view.
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The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
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