Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Editor's note · Context
Mann identifies slavery as a legal barrier to Wheeling's growth.
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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.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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