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More is lost in production than is gained by privation.
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Mann asserts that the losses incurred from poor production practices outweigh any benefits derived from the suffering of slaves.
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
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.
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