It put the country upon achieving its second independence,--its independence, at least for the necessaries of life, of foreign mechanics, manufacturers, and artisans, as it had already achieved its political independence of foreign kings, aristocracies, and ecclesiastics.
Mann emphasizes the need for the country to achieve economic independence from foreign sources.
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Her lowland neighbors of Maryland and the Carolinas were not far behind at the seeding; nor are they far behind at the ingathering of desolation.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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