We, of the South, are emphatically surrounded by a dangerous class of beings--degraded and stupid savages, who, if they could but once entertain the idea, that immediate and unconditional death would not be their portion, would re-act the St.
Tappan describes the dehumanizing view slaveholders have of enslaved people, portraying them as a dangerous class.
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In a community so unenlightened as yours, it is a matter of course, that the arts and sciences must languish, and the industry and enterprise of the country be oppressed by a general torpor.
If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.
It cannot be, therefore, the interest or the inclination of the sagacious and reflecting among them, to promote the intellectual improvement of the inferior class.
When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.