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In practice, we are where we were then; in spirit, there are proofs that we have gone backward.
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Mann expresses disappointment that, despite some spiritual progress, practical advancements against slavery have regressed.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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