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The slave’s heart never beats with this high emotion.
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Mann emphasizes the emotional toll of slavery on the enslaved individuals.
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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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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