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The law is beneficent to them; it saves its terrors for the slave.
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Mann critiques the legal system's bias against slaves, highlighting its unjust nature.
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Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
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.
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.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
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