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Yet this is done wherever slavery exists, and is part and parcel of its working.
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Mann notes the pervasive negative effects of slavery, suggesting it is an intrinsic part of its existence.
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The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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