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Can the oppression that tramples out voluntary industry, enterprise, intelligence, and the desire of independence, conduce to riches?
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Mann challenges the idea that oppression can lead to wealth, emphasizing the detrimental effects of slavery on industry and independence.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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