The author puts the phrase "land of the free and home of the brave" (lines 5 - 6) in quotes in order to
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The belief that the Africans brought to London
to be sold into slavery were at the time in a
more or less primitive stage of uncivilized life;
pales in comparison to the methods used to
(5) capture and transport them to this "land of the
free and home of the brave". The details,
brought forth through vivid pen pictures,
indicate the demoralizing and debasing effects
of the "system" from its initial period, followed
(10) up by the blighting influences of slave life, even
under the most favorable conditions, for nearly
two hundred and fifty years. This left upon their
lives and character just the traits it would have
left upon any other people subjected to similar
(15) conditions for the same length of time.
The argument that slavery gave the African
some of the arts of civilized life; while denying
him the inalienable rights of manhood, denying
him the right to the product of his labor, does
(20) not hold water as it left him no noble incentive to
labor at these arts, and thus tended to render him
improvident, careless, shiftless, in short, to
demoralize his entire nature.