Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and wi…

Alexis de Tocqueville
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Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man. ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). Democracy in America, p.37, Penguin
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