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The idea, then, of sending the slaves back to their country is an egregious fallacy.
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Mann critiques the idea of returning enslaved people to Africa as fundamentally flawed.
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The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
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