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A far greater proportion of their children than of the white children of the slave states of this Union are at school.
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Mann highlights the disparity in educational access between enslaved children and white children in the United States.
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They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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.
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