Hence, it is said in advertisements that a slave is pious, and, at the auction block, the hardened and heartless seller dwells upon the Christian graces and religious character of some slaves with the unction of an apostle.
Mann critiques the way sellers promote the religious qualities of slaves to increase their saleability, likening it to a perverse form of evangelism.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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