I affirm, then, that when a man in Massachusetts, who by the constitution of Massachusetts is free, is adjudged to be a slave, is transported as a slave, and held as a slave, in a southern state, though it be but for a single day, he is deprived of his liberty.
Mann asserts that even a brief period of enslavement deprives a free man of his liberty.
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Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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