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For another reason slavery is an unspeakable wrong.
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Mann asserts that slavery is fundamentally wrong for multiple reasons, emphasizing its moral implications.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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