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The life of such a man is a perpetual agony of alarm for himself and for his family.
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Mann portrays the life of individuals under slavery as filled with constant fear and anxiety.
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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.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
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