He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur a miserable death in their transportation thither.
Mann condemns the actions of the British king for waging war against humanity through slavery.
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The institution of slavery is against natural right.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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