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This government, too, is the one which is most boastful and vain-glorious of its freedom; and if the humiliating truth must be spoken, this government is our own.
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Mann critiques the United States government for its hypocrisy regarding freedom while maintaining slavery.
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Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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