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Have they no need of consolation, of faith in the Unseen, to help them bear up under the burdens and anxieties of life?
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Mann reflects on the need for spiritual support in facing life's challenges.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
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