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So the constitution of the United States creates no slaves, and can create none.
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Mann concludes that the U.S. Constitution does not and cannot create slaves.
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Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
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