Because we can carry our property there, when property means inanimate substances, you have only to call a human being property;--you have only to call a creature, formed in the image of God, property, and then he can be smuggled in under the new name.
Mann argues against the dehumanization of individuals by illustrating how the term 'property' can be misapplied to people.
Share
More from Horace Mann
But such largesses to slavery as kings could not afford to give, and the robbery of an entire race of all its rights,--yes, and with authority, too, to make us help commit the robbery,--these are “factitious and imaginary” causes of…
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Other voices in this conversation
