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The same system was spreading ruin over the provinces, and thus the prosperity of the empire was undermined.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The same system was spreading ruin over the provinces, and thus the prosperity of the empire was undermined.”
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Mann highlights how the decline of provinces was linked to the ruinous practices of slaveholding.
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