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A three-penny tax on tea was a real grievance,--one fit to be resisted unto blood, to be historically recorded, and to which we are not ashamed to refer when descanting upon the honor of our fathers.
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Mann compares the historical grievance of a tea tax to the greater injustice of slavery.
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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.
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