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A man may not lose his horse without a right to this trial, but he may lose his freedom.
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Mann highlights the disparity in legal protections between property and personal freedom.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
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.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
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