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The cotton cultivation in the East Indies, by cheapening the article, will close the markets in the South, and thus it guarantees the abolition of slavery in the breeding States.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan asserts that the rise of cotton cultivation in the East Indies will undermine the markets in the South, leading to the abolition of slavery.
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