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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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Mann highlights the inability of enslaved individuals to seek justice for the wrongs they suffer.
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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.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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