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It has done well, though it has not done all.
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Mann acknowledges that while civil society is not infallible, it has achieved significant accomplishments.
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Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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