Whatever of comfort is necessary to him for his body or soul that is inconsistent with his being property, is carefully wrested from him, not only by public opinion, but by the law of the country.

He is carefully deprived of everything that tends in the slightest degree to detract from his value as property.

He is deprived of education.

God has given him an intellect; the slaveholder declares it shall not be cultivated.

If his moral perception leads him in a course contrary to his value as property, the slaveholder declares he shall not exercise it.