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"These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: the men in Kentucky [neither] have zeal nor enlightenment cross over into Ohio in order to utilize their industry and to be able to exercise it without shame in Kentucky, masters make slaves work without being obliged to pay them, but they receive little fruit from their efforts, while the money that they would give to free workers would be recovered with interest from the value of their labors."
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