The master has become timid and fearful, the slave bold and daring--the white men, overpowered with a sense of superior numbers on the part of the slaves, cannot be embodied together; every man must guard his own hearth and fireside.
Tappan describes the shift in power dynamics between enslaved people and their masters in times of fear.
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Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
If you admit the greatest happiness of the greatest number to be the true test of national prosperity, then, beyond all controversy, the British West Indies are now infinitely more prosperous than at any previous period of their history.
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.