If the ancestors of the present three millions of slaves had never been brought here,--if their descendants had never been propagated here, for the supposed value of their services, their places would have been supplied by white laborers,--by men of the Caucasian race,--by freemen.
Mann posits that if slavery had not existed, the labor force would have been composed of free white individuals.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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