"And yet again, there are in the United States and territories, including the District of Columbia, 433,643 free blacks. At $500 per head they are worth over two hundred millions of dollars. How comes this vast amount of property to be running about without owners? We do not see free horses or free cattle running at large. How is this? All these free blacks are the descendants of slaves, or have been slaves themselves, or they would be slaves now, but for something which has operated on their white owners, inducing them, at vast pecuniary sacrifices, to liberate them. What is that something? Is there any mistaking it?"
If the south was right, why were all these free blacks left running around without owners?
Walt
Please look at your last five 'income' tax 'returns' and see how much your head is worth to the Federal government. Then try to get free from it (the tax liability, Soc. Sec., etc.). Then ask yourself, "Am I really a free man?"
I bet you come back with a totally relative answer.