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If he be not a slave, then he is delivered into the hands of a man-stealer.
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Mann warns that if a person is not a slave, they risk being delivered to a man-stealer, highlighting the dangers of misidentification.
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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.
Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
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.
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