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The state of slavery is always a state of war.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann asserts that living in slavery is akin to living in a constant state of conflict.
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Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
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