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He must not be educated, lest with education should come a knowledge of his natural rights, and the means of escape or the power of vengeance.
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Mann warns that educating enslaved individuals could lead to their awareness of rights and desires for freedom.
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Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
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.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
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