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The fact is, that our eastern brethren must send off, on any terms, the increase of their slaves, because their impoverished country cannot sustain even its present stock of negroes.
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Mann asserts that eastern slave owners must sell their slaves due to economic constraints.
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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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