In the present century, what but discussion and agitation, through all the realms of Great Britain and in this country, could have sufficed to extinguish the slave trade,--that foulest blot upon modern civilization?
Mann emphasizes the importance of discussion and agitation in abolishing the slave trade.
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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.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
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