On the record
If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.”
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Tappan argues that both slavery and freedom affect population growth similarly in new states as they do in older ones.
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