On the record
Now, after this debased class has been created by a wicked system of human laws, and after it is mingled with the free class, another law steps in and decrees that the former shall be remanded to their bondage.
Source
gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Now, after this debased class has been created by a wicked system of human laws, and after it is mingled with the free…”
Editor's note · Context
Mann critiques the legal system that perpetuates slavery by remanding freed individuals back into bondage.
Share
More from Horace Mann
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
Other voices in this conversation
