But to send a man to be worked to death in five years on a sugar plantation, where his being taught to read the gospel of Jesus Christ is a felony,--this is “special and limited,” and so may be done by any hireling commissioner who will do what Judas did for one third part of his silver pieces.
Mann condemns the brutal realities of slavery and the moral implications of such practices.
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The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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