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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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Mann critiques the detrimental effects of slavery on Virginia's economy and society.
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Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
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.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
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