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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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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.
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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