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It, is however, worthy of remark, that its cultivation affords a livelihood to only a small proportion of the free inhabitants; and scarcely to any of those we are now addressing.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan notes that cotton cultivation benefits only a small fraction of the free population in the South.
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