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The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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Mann asserts that slavery contradicts natural rights, emphasizing its moral wrongness.
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It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
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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