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The power of the slaveholders, as we have already showed you, depends on the acquiescence of the major part of the white inhabitants in their domination.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan argues that the power of slaveholders relies on the compliance of the majority of white citizens.
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You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is necessarily discouraged.
If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.
Slavery is maintained by you whom it impoverishes and degrades, not by those upon whom it confers wealth and influence.
The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.