In Rome and the States of the Church, where, under the influence of religious and political despotism, the heart of Freedom was supposed to be petrified into insoluble hardness, that heart is now beginning to pulsate with a new life, and to throb with sympathy for humanity.
Mann describes the resurgence of freedom and sympathy for humanity in regions previously under despotism.
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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