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Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
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Mann highlights the critical importance of education for the enslaved in relation to their spiritual autonomy.
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Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Her lowland neighbors of Maryland and the Carolinas were not far behind at the seeding; nor are they far behind at the ingathering of desolation.
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