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As the constitution, in terms, adopts the common law, it leaves slavery nothing to stand upon but the local laws of the states where it is established.
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Mann points out that the Constitution's adoption of common law does not provide a foundation for slavery, which relies solely on state laws.
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Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
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.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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