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While slaves exist in it, therefore, it can be charged upon the north that they uphold slavery.
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Mann argues that the existence of slavery in the District implicates the North in its continuation.
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The institution of slavery is against natural right.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
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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