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He may suffer all wrong, and the courts will not hearken to his testimony; but for the first wrong he does, the same courts inflict their severest punishments upon him.
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Mann points out the severe injustice faced by slaves, who are punished for any wrongdoing while being denied a voice in their own defense.
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