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But you have special laws; local and peculiar laws,--laws contrary to the great principles of the common law, by which you call men and women property.
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Mann critiques laws that dehumanize individuals by treating them as property, highlighting the moral implications of such legislation.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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.
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.
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