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Is a whole race to be forever doomed to this outlawry?
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann poses a rhetorical question about the perpetual state of oppression faced by a whole race.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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