With the exception of New Orleans, (whose free schools were commenced and have been presided over by a Massachusetts man,) and three or four other cities, all the libraries in the public schools of the slave states could be carried in a schoolboy’s satchel.
Mann highlights the scarcity of library resources in the public schools of slave states.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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