If it did not,--if a man who has a legal right to a slave in Virginia, has a legal right to him anywhere,--then the provision in the constitution, and the act of 1793 for recapturing fugitive slaves, would have been unnecessary.
Mann highlights the necessity of laws regarding fugitive slaves, indicating that legal rights are not universal across states.
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