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Now, the ignorant slave knows but little of geography, but he would know of these avenues to freedom, and nothing but death could extinguish such knowledge and the hopes it would inspire.
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Mann suggests that even an ignorant slave would be aware of potential avenues to freedom, driven by hope.
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