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Slaveholders would not venture to carry slaves into a country, where, at any moment an act of Congress might emancipate them.
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Mann asserts that the threat of emancipation would deter slaveholders from bringing slaves into new territories.
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The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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