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Massachusetts has committed errors; but when they were seen to be errors, she discarded them.
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Mann acknowledges that Massachusetts has made mistakes but highlights its ability to recognize and correct them.
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The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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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.
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