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Like a culprit, in whom some love of character still survives, it speaks of its offence without calling it by name.
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Mann compares the Constitution's treatment of slavery to a guilty person avoiding the term.
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The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
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.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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