On the record
The witnesses who swore away his liberty may have been perjured, but he cannot stop to convict them.
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Mann notes the potential for false testimony against individuals, emphasizing the injustice of their situation.
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It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
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