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Thousands of human beings are not to be robbed of all their dearest rights, and they and their children, forever, by strained constitutions, or apocryphal authority, doomed to bondage.
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Mann passionately defends the rights of individuals against unjust constitutional interpretations that could lead to slavery.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
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