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If such a proceeding does not deprive a man of his freedom, by what means can he be deprived of it?
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Mann challenges the notion of freedom in the context of coercion and slavery.
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Or, to enlarge the scope of the question: What must you think has caused Virginians in general to neglect their superlative advantages for manufacturing industry?--to disregard the evident suggestions of nature, pointing out to them this…
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.
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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