This is just as certain as it is that the great crimes of the race committed in past ages,--the persecutions of the early Christians, the tortures of the Inquisition, or the atrocities of the African Slave trade,--are now condemned by the awful verdict of history and the ever-sounding reprobation of mankind.
Mann draws parallels between historical injustices and the current struggle against slavery.
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Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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