Has it any barriers to keep the spirit of liberty, which has electrified the Old World, from crossing its own borders, and quickening its bondmen into mutinous life?--not all of them, but one in ten thousand, one in a hundred thousand of them.
Mann questions whether any barriers can prevent the spread of the spirit of liberty to enslaved individuals.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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