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The channels are so cut that all the sacred and healing waters of knowledge flow, not to him, but by him.
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Mann uses a metaphor to illustrate how knowledge is denied to those who need it most.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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