If the nature of the climate and resources of these countries are such as to furnish a profitable market for slave labor, it appears to be conceded, on all sides, that it would be introduced, if left free to seek profitable investment, like other capital.
Mann discusses the economic potential of slave labor in newly acquired territories, emphasizing the profit motive.
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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.
Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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