On the record
In those parts only where the slaves are comparatively few, are many mechanics and artificers to be found; but even in these parts they do not flourish as the same useful class of men flourish in the free states.
Source
gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “In those parts only where the slaves are comparatively few, are many mechanics and artificers to be found; but even in…”
Editor's note · Context
Mann argues that areas with fewer slaves have more thriving mechanics and artisans.
Share
More from Horace Mann
The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
