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The slave shares it with his master, and it has descended into his bosom from the same high source.
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Mann reflects on the shared humanity and connection between slaves and their masters.
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He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
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