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And if the schools in the slave states are compared with the schools in the free states, the deficiency in quality will be found as great as the deficiency in number.
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Mann asserts that the quality of education in slave states is significantly inferior to that in free states.
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Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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