I visited our State Penitentiary a short time since, and from my own personal observation I am led to the inevitable conclusion that the plan of sending our slaves to the Penitentiary, as a punishment for crime, is exactly the reverse: it is rather a reward than punishment.
Sumner critiques the penal system's treatment of slaves, suggesting that imprisonment is not a punishment for them.
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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
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