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The result is, that many families are compelled by their embarrassments to sell off and leave the country.
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Mann notes that economic difficulties often force families to leave areas where slavery is prevalent.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
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.
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