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However atrocious the wrongs they may suffer in their own person and character, or in the person and character of wife or children, they cannot appeal to the courts to avenge or redress them.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “However atrocious the wrongs they may suffer in their own person and character, or in the person and character of wife…”
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Mann highlights the inability of enslaved individuals to seek justice for the wrongs they suffer.
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