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It is the noblest attribute of our race, that we hold civil and religious liberty to be more sacred and more precious than life itself.
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Mann highlights the fundamental importance of civil and religious liberty to human dignity.
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The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
Or, to enlarge the scope of the question: What must you think has caused Virginians in general to neglect their superlative advantages for manufacturing industry?--to disregard the evident suggestions of nature, pointing out to them this…
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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