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They have been added unnecessarily and remorselessly to the amount of human guilt and suffering for which the white race must answer in the day of account.
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Mann holds the white race accountable for the suffering caused by slavery, emphasizing collective guilt.
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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.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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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