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That these whole regions are filled with rich mines, is little less than certain, and that they can be profitably worked by slave labor is sure.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “That these whole regions are filled with rich mines, is little less than certain, and that they can be profitably worked…”
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Mann asserts the certainty of rich mines in certain regions and their viability for slave labor.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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