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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.
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Mann critiques the economic dependency of the South on Northern manufacturing, illustrating the consequences of slavery on regional development.
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