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Therefore, since in agriculture slave labor is proved to be far less productive than free labor, slavery is demonstrated to be not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to the public prosperity.
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Mann concludes that slavery is not only unprofitable but harmful to overall public prosperity.
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