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In the meantime, especially in the cotton States, the slaves will continue to increase in a ratio far beyond the whites, and will at length acquire a fearful preponderance.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “In the meantime, especially in the cotton States, the slaves will continue to increase in a ratio far beyond the whites…”
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Tappan warns about the demographic shift in the cotton states, highlighting the potential power imbalance between slaves and whites.
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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.
You are moreover aware that the great capitalists of the South have their wealth chiefly invested in plantations and slaves, and not as with us in commerce and manufactures.
In a community so unenlightened as yours, it is a matter of course, that the arts and sciences must languish, and the industry and enterprise of the country be oppressed by a general torpor.
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.