I believe that the money, and the comforts purchasable with it, which such competitions take from the workman here, do not go to improve the condition of the workman there, but are intercepted and appropriated by others.
Mann critiques the economic impacts of competition on workers, suggesting that benefits are often misappropriated.
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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.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
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