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And when the struggle was ended and the triumph won, they achieved labors of peace not less magnanimous and wonderful than their labors of war.
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Mann reflects on the peaceful achievements that followed a struggle for justice, emphasizing their significance.
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The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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