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It is natural that we should fear those whom we are conscious of having deeply injured, and all history and experience testify that fear is a cruel passion.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan reflects on the psychological impact of guilt and fear in historical contexts of oppression.
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The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.
If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.
But what a commentary on slavery and slaveholders is afforded by the gross ignorance prevailing in the old States of South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina!
Has it ever happened that the mass of any people were rich enough to keep, for their own convenience, such expensive laborers--as southern slaves?