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Did this doctrine grow out of a jealousy for the rights of man, a fear of usurpation, an assertion of the principle of self-government, I should sympathize with it, while I denied its legality.
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Mann acknowledges the motivations behind the doctrine of self-government while rejecting its legality.
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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