The price of cotton has regulated the price of negroes in Virginia; and so it must continue to do; because slave labor is unprofitable here, and nothing keeps up the price of slaves but their value as a marketable commodity in the south.
Mann explains how the cotton market influences the value of slaves in Virginia.
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This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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