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No lover of liberty can read them without having their atrocious character burned into his mind ineffaceably.
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Mann asserts that the inhuman nature of the Fugitive Slave Law is unforgettable for anyone who values liberty.
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This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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