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They discard the institution of slavery, while we cherish it.
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Mann critiques the acceptance of slavery in America compared to its rejection in other nations.
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Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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