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No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
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Mann emphasizes that free labor is superior to slave labor in promoting state growth and prosperity.
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Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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