Without the Ordinance, the Revolution itself, in its application to that territory, and the treaty of 1783, by which its ample domain was secured to the Union, would have been shorn of their glory, and robbed of their value.
Mann argues that the Ordinance was crucial for preserving the integrity and significance of the American Revolution and its territorial gains.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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.
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