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When has Virginia, in any state or national election, given a majority equal to the number of its voters unable to read or write?
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Mann questions the political representation of illiterate voters in Virginia, emphasizing the need for educational reform.
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The institution of slavery is against natural right.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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