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The plaintiff, thenceforth, may control his actions, his words, his food, his sleep.
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Mann describes the extent of control a plaintiff has over a defendant, emphasizing the dehumanizing effects of slavery.
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Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
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.
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.
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