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It gives us, too, that sign which is the perpetual distinction of barbarism, that it has no law of progress.
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Mann argues that slavery lacks the ability to progress, marking it as a sign of barbarism.
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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.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
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