On the record
That very thing is done to him which the constitution says shall not be done but by a jury of his peers.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann argues that the legal process surrounding slavery also involves the violation of individual rights.
Share
More from Horace Mann
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Other voices in this conversation
