After their day’s work is done, they visit the dram-shops, roam the streets till midnight, and if not invited away by vicious men, they huddle by scores into filthy lodging-houses, where they sleep, men and women promiscuously, till morning summons them back to their tasks.
Mann describes the harsh realities of life for female laborers after their workday ends.
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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.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
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