Lewis Tappan: “In breaking the chains which bind the slave, be assured you will be…”

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In breaking the chains which bind the slave, be assured you will be delivering yourselves from a grievous thraldom.

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Lewis Tappan

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Tappan asserts that freeing the enslaved will also liberate the oppressors from their own bondage.

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Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.

Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.

Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.

The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.

Lewis Tappan: “In breaking the chains which bind the slave, be assured you will be delivering yourselves from a grievous thraldom.”