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Nowhere, since time began, have the two systems of slave labor and free labor been subjected to so fair and so decisive a trial of their effects on public prosperity as in these United States.
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Mann argues that the United States provides a unique opportunity to compare the effects of slave labor and free labor on public prosperity.
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Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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