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The writers on moral or ethical science,--the expounders of the law of nations and of God,--denounce slavery as an invasion of the rights of man.
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Mann highlights that moral philosophers and legal scholars universally denounce slavery as a violation of human rights.
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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.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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