It is not until the fields grow old, and the crops grow short, and the negroes and the overseer take nearly all, that the day of ruin can be no longer postponed.
Horace Mann: “It is not until the fields grow old, and the crops grow short, and the negroes and the overseer take nearly all, that…”
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Mann critiques the economic consequences of slavery on agricultural productivity.
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