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The exception I mean, embraces those laws of men which are clearly contrary to the law of God.
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Mann highlights the importance of distinguishing between human laws and divine laws.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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