Webster says there are independent courts at the south, “always open and ready to receive and decide upon petitions or applications for freedom.” Suppose this to be true; how is a man or a woman, whose master knows that he or she is free, to get to the courts?
Mann questions the practicality of accessing justice for freed individuals in the South, as suggested by Webster.
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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.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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