It exhibits itself in the statute books of the slave states, prohibiting the education of slaves, making it highly penal to teach them so much as the alphabet; dispersing and punishing all meetings where they come together in quest of knowledge.
Mann highlights the laws in slave states that actively prevent the education of enslaved individuals, emphasizing the importance of knowledge.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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