Do you ask that your children may be rescued from the ignorance and irreligion to which they are now doomed, and that avenues may be opened for you and for them to honest and profitable employment?
Tappan advocates for the education and better future of children currently trapped in ignorance due to slavery.
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The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.
Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!
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Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.