On the record
Generally, ignorance is a necessary concomitant of slavery.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann asserts that ignorance is an inherent aspect of slavery, linking the two concepts closely together.
Share
More from Horace Mann
Has the fact never yet come to the knowledge of the magistrates of the District of Columbia, that the constitution of the United States declares that “excessive bail shall not be required”?
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
