Hence, it is said in advertisements that a slave is pious, and, at the auction block, the hardened and heartless seller dwells upon the Christian graces and religious character of some slaves with the unction of an apostle.
Mann critiques the way sellers promote the religious qualities of slaves to increase their saleability, likening it to a perverse form of evangelism.
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Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
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.
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