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All the good that reaches him, reaches him in defiance of these privations and disabilities.
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Mann asserts that any good that reaches slaves does so despite the overwhelming obstacles they face.
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The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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