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That the creation of a new slave territory will increase the victims of slavery, is a proposition too plain to be argued.
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Mann states that the creation of new slave territories will inevitably increase the number of enslaved individuals.
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Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
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