Lewis Tappan: “Slavery, as we have seen, checks the progress of population, of the…”

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Slavery, as we have seen, checks the progress of population, of the arts, of enterprise, and of industry.

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Lewis Tappan

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Tappan argues that slavery hinders societal progress in various aspects, including population and industry.

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Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?

The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.

Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.

Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.

Lewis Tappan: “Slavery, as we have seen, checks the progress of population, of the arts, of enterprise, and of industry.”