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And what is the condition of these your sisters, in regard to everything that a virtuous and noble woman holds most sacred and dear?
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Mann questions the conditions faced by enslaved women, emphasizing the values that virtuous women hold dear.
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He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
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.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
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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