"Marketableness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... slave die in prison, before he or she can be sold, the county pays the sheriff and jailer; formerly these officers depended on the life and marketableness of their prisoners for security; but even this poor motive for kindness is now taken away. If ninety-nine out of a hundred die in prison, they will be heard of only in the jailer's bill. I never heard ...
— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child |
