Here the two systems have worked side by side for ages, under such equal circumstances, both political and physical, and with such ample time and opportunity for each to work out its proper effects, that all must admit the experiment to be now complete, and the result decisive.
Mann asserts that the long-term coexistence of slave and free labor in the U.S. has yielded clear results regarding their respective impacts.
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Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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?
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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