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The country might not have had so gaudy and ostentatious a civilization as at present, but it would have had one infinitely more pure and sound.
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Mann concludes that a civilization built on freedom would be more virtuous than one built on slavery.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
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