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The accomplishments it yields are of a mock quality, rather than of a real, having about the same relation to a substantial and finished culture that honor has to character.
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Mann critiques the superficial nature of accomplishments gained through slavery.
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Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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