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It is proposed to create a race of men, to whom all the lights of experience shall be extinguished; whose hundredth generation shall be as ignorant and as barbarous as its first.
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Mann expresses concern about creating a generation that is entirely ignorant and barbaric due to the denial of knowledge.
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This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
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.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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