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Should it be said that slavery will not go into the new territories, because it is unprofitable; I ask, Where is it profitable?
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Mann questions the economic arguments against slavery's expansion into new territories, challenging the notion of its profitability.
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The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
Has the fact never yet come to the knowledge of the magistrates of the District of Columbia, that the constitution of the United States declares that “excessive bail shall not be required”?
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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