On the record
The planters of Jamaica were formerly as much afraid of their slaves, as your planters now are of theirs.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “The planters of Jamaica were formerly as much afraid of their slaves, as your planters now are of theirs.”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan draws a parallel between the fears of planters in Jamaica and those in the South regarding their slaves.
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Hence with them slavery is the INSTITUTION of the SOUTH, while it is in fact the institution of only a portion of the people of the south.
Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.
Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.
It is so commonly taken for granted, that every white man at the South is a slaveholder, that many will doubtingly inquire, where are these non-slaveholding citizens to be found?