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They affixed another stain upon the country, and set in deeper shade the contrast between the theory of our government and its practice.
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Mann points out the hypocrisy between the ideals of government and its practices regarding slavery.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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.
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