On the record
She made its people her prey, and the unwilling colonies her market-place.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann critiques the exploitation of people and resources in the context of colonialism and slavery.
Share
More from Horace Mann
The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
Other voices in this conversation
