All the crime of their kidnapping; all the horrors of the middle passage; all their sufferings for two centuries, or six generations; and all the calamities that are yet to grow out of their condition,--all these crimes and agonies are gratuitous crimes and agonies.
Mann emphasizes the moral weight of the suffering caused by slavery as unnecessary and unjustifiable.
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He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
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.
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