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Jurists, from the time of Justinian; orators, from the time of Cicero; poets, from the time of Homer, declare it to be wrong.
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Mann cites historical figures to support the argument that slavery is universally recognized as wrong.
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The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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.
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