Let those who aid, abet, or connive at slavery extension now, as they read the damning sentence which history has awarded against the actors, abettors, and connivers of the African trade, but change the names, and they will be reading of themselves.
Mann warns those complicit in the extension of slavery that history will judge them harshly.
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