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Look into the statute books of the free states, and you will find law after law, encouragement after encouragement, to secure the diffusion of knowledge.
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Mann contrasts the laws of free states that promote education with those of slave states that suppress it.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
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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.
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