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Hence the deficiency of agriculture and other products in Kentucky arises, not from a peculiar species of cultivation, but solely from the withering effects of slavery.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Hence the deficiency of agriculture and other products in Kentucky arises, not from a peculiar species of cultivation…”
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Tappan argues that the economic shortcomings of Kentucky are directly linked to the institution of slavery rather than agricultural practices.
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If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.
We might as well talk of poor men owning herds of cattle and studs of horses, as gangs of negroes.
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?
Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.