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His rights would be lost in his enforced disability to defend them.
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Mann highlights the tragic reality that individuals may lose their rights due to their inability to defend themselves when forcibly incapacitated.
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They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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