On the old slave-labored lowlands, a singular phenomena has appeared; there, within the bounds of these rapidly growing United States,--yes, there, population has been long at a stand; yes, over wide regions,--especially in Virginia,--it has declined, and a new wilderness is gaining upon the cultivated land!
Mann observes that population stagnation and decline in old slave-labor regions, particularly Virginia, is a troubling trend.
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Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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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.
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