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If slave labor, then, is profitable, slaveholding is equitable.
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Tompkins argues that if slave labor is deemed profitable, then the practice of slaveholding is justified.
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It will not be conceived, from these observations, that it is my wish to hold these unhappy people (negroes) in slavery.
I repeat again, that it would rejoice my very soul that every one of my fellow beings were emancipated.
There can be no other reason than the one given by George Mason eighty years ago: slavery produces a most pernicious effect upon manners.
Have we not reason to suspect that too many of our countrymen have ceased to be virtuous?
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