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But slavery makes the general education of the whites impossible.
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This quote highlights the detrimental effect of slavery on the education of white individuals, suggesting that it hinders societal progress.
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No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
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.
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