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Destroying common education, slavery destroys the fruits of common education,--the inventive mind, practical talent, the power of adapting means to ends in the business of life.
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Mann asserts that slavery undermines the benefits of education, stifling creativity and practical skills.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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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.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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