Lewis Tappan: “Feel then your own power; claim your rights, and exert them for the…”

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Feel then your own power; claim your rights, and exert them for the deliverance of the slave, and consequently for your own happiness and prosperity.

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Lewis Tappan

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Tappan encourages non-slaveholders to recognize their power and act for the benefit of both themselves and the enslaved.

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