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Who knows but some of them have read the Declaration of American Independence; and, in their blindness and simplicity of mind, applied its immortal truths to themselves?
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Mann speculates on the awareness of enslaved people regarding the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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