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Could they not have infused into the mind of these slaves the idea of liberty?
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Mann suggests that the idea of seeking freedom could have originated from the enslaved individuals themselves, driven by their innate desire for liberty.
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No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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