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Does not this hold a man’s freedom to be of less value than twenty dollars?
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Mann critiques the valuation of human freedom in the context of slavery, emphasizing its moral implications.
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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?
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
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.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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