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Improvements in the arts give confident promise that some new textile substance will soon be discovered which will supersede this slave-made and slave-making material.
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Mann is optimistic about future innovations that could replace cotton as a primary textile material.
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I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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