But such largesses to slavery as kings could not afford to give, and the robbery of an entire race of all its rights,--yes, and with authority, too, to make us help commit the robbery,--these are “factitious and imaginary” causes of dissatisfaction.
Mann denounces the trivialization of slavery's injustices as mere 'imaginary' causes of dissatisfaction.
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Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
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