Yet here, in what we call republican America, are fifteen great states, vying with each other to see which will bring the blackest and most impervious pall of ignorance over three millions of human beings; nay, which can do most to stretch this pall across the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Mann criticizes the competition among slave states to maintain ignorance among enslaved populations, illustrating the systemic nature of oppression.
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