On the record
Is a slave state, which dooms our brethren of the human race, perhaps interminably, to the vassal’s fate, so insignificant a trifle, that it may be flung in, as small change on the settlement of an account?
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann critiques the moral implications of slavery and its impact on humanity.
Share
More from Horace Mann
Has the fact never yet come to the knowledge of the magistrates of the District of Columbia, that the constitution of the United States declares that “excessive bail shall not be required”?
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
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.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
Other voices in this conversation
