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I say, sir, under such circumstances, slavery would melt away upon your borders like an iceberg in the tropics.
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Mann metaphorically states that slavery would quickly diminish if free land were accessible, likening it to ice melting.
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Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
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