And what confinement was ever so hopeless as southern slavery, what prison was ever so deep as that prison-house which holds three millions of our fellow-beings within its melancholy walls,--them and their posterity forever?
Mann powerfully compares the hopelessness of Southern slavery to the deepest of prisons.
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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.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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