Whenever we applaud the great champions of liberty, who, by the sacrifice of life in the cause of freedom, have won the homage of the world and an immortality of fame, we record the testimony of our hearts against slavery.
Mann honors those who fought for freedom, asserting that their sacrifices highlight the moral opposition to slavery.
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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.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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