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And how infinitely absurd and ridiculous is the plea that the slaves are better off here “than THEY would have been in Africa”!
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Mann criticizes the absurd justification for slavery based on the supposed welfare of enslaved individuals.
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Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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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