On the record
Why, then, if they would do this to avert such peril from themselves and their families, do they not do it when their sable brethren are in jeopardy?
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann questions the hypocrisy of those who would protect their own families but ignore the plight of Black individuals.
Share
More from Horace Mann
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
Other voices in this conversation
