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The Fugitive Slave law was passed, and thereby the rights of freemen, the property of men in themselves, all the household sanctities, all the domestic endearments of half a million of men, were put in peril.
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Mann highlights the dangers posed to the rights and lives of enslaved individuals by the Fugitive Slave Law.
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