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Do we seek to abolish all those noble instincts of the human soul, by which it yearns for improvement and progress; and do we quench its sublime aspirations after knowledge and virtue?
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Mann argues that slavery stifles the human spirit's desire for progress and improvement.
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Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
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.
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.
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