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Hence this unsightly wound, that affrights whoever beholds it.
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Mann uses vivid imagery to describe the lasting scars of slavery on society.
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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.
Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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