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From year to year, it goes on conquering and to conquer, and human power cannot dethrone it.
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Mann describes the relentless expansion of slavery, likening it to a conquering force that cannot be stopped.
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Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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