On the record
The country, coming fresh from that baptism of fire,--the American Revolution,--would not profane its lips with this unhallowed word.
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Mann reflects on the moral stance of the country post-American Revolution regarding the term 'slave.'
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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