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Determined to keep a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
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Mann accuses the British king of deliberately maintaining the slave trade for profit.
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This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
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.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
Her lowland neighbors of Maryland and the Carolinas were not far behind at the seeding; nor are they far behind at the ingathering of desolation.
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