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I said that the slave does not know much of geography; but he understands enough of it to know where lies the free frontier.
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Mann reflects on the limited geographical knowledge of slaves, highlighting their awareness of freedom's location.
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The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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