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Compare the condition of these three million slaves with the condition of the three million colonists.
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Mann invites a comparison between the conditions of slaves and those of the American colonists to highlight injustice.
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No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
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.
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.
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.
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