It was a much less violent wrenching of moral ideas of right and wrong to allow Massachusetts men to carry slaves to South Carolina than to allow cargoes to come into Boston, and become slaves in Massachusetts.
Du Bois reflects on the moral implications of allowing slave transport to South Carolina versus Massachusetts.
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Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!
Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.
The first decade was merely a prolongation of the vain search for freedom, the boon that seemed ever barely to elude their grasp,—like a tantalizing will-o’-the-wisp, maddening and misleading the headless host.
By 1830 slavery seemed hopelessly fastened on the South, and the slaves thoroughly cowed into submission.