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Hence multitudes will be without regular and profitable employment, and be condemned to poverty and numberless privations.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Hence multitudes will be without regular and profitable employment, and be condemned to poverty and numberless…”
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Tappan warns that slavery leads to widespread unemployment and poverty among the Southern population.
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It is also a matter of notoriety, that the price of slaves has been and still is such as to confine their possession almost exclusively to the rich.
No other cause can be assigned than slavery, which drives from your borders many of the virtuous and enterprising, and at the same time deters emigrants from other States and from foreign countries from settling among you.
Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.
Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.