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Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan argues that slavery tends to concentrate wealth and property in the hands of a few, critiquing the economic implications of the institution.
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We ask your attention to the injuries inflicted upon you and your children, by an institution which lives by your sufferance, and will die at your mandate.
Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.
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?
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?