If any free negro or mulatto enters the State of Mississippi, for any cause however urgent, any white citizen may cause him to be punished by the Sheriff with thirty-nine lashes, and if he does not immediately thereafter leave the State, he is SOLD AS A SLAVE.
Tappan illustrates the harsh penalties faced by free individuals in Mississippi, emphasizing the brutality of the laws.
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Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.
Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.
You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is necessarily discouraged.
You are moreover aware that the great capitalists of the South have their wealth chiefly invested in plantations and slaves, and not as with us in commerce and manufactures.