What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue?
On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light?
Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man?
That point is conceded already.

Nobody doubts it.

The slaveholders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government.
They acknowledge it when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave.

There are seventy-two crimes in the state of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of these same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment.

What is this but the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual, and responsible being.