Such are the terrific visions which are constantly presenting themselves to the affrighted imaginations of the slaveholders; such the character which, among themselves, they attribute to their own domestics.
Tappan explores the fears and anxieties that slaveholders project onto their enslaved populations.
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Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!
Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
By abolishing slavery you will become the architects of your own fortune, and of your country's greatness.
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?