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And this corruption of blood, which the law of slavery works, does not stop with the first, nor with the second generation,--not with the tenth nor the ten thousandth; but by the theory of the law, goes on forever.
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Mann argues that the effects of slavery's legal corruption are perpetual, affecting generations indefinitely.
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Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
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