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But these lofty and enduring satisfactions,--this pleasure,--it is no extravagance to say, this bliss of knowledge, both for parent and child, is withheld, cruelly, remorselessly withheld, from the slave.
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He argues that the joys of knowledge are cruelly denied to those who are enslaved.
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The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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