And does this proceeding conflict with this “spirit” any the less, because the prison is a southern rice swamp, or cotton field, where the nearest door or outlet of escape is more than a hundred miles from the spot of confinement?
Mann questions whether the location of imprisonment diminishes the severity of the injustice of slavery.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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