Most of the clergy are themselves slaveholders, and are thus personally interested in the system, and are consequently bold and active in justifying it from Scripture, representing it as an institution enjoying the divine sanction.
Tappan criticizes clergy who justify slavery, highlighting their personal stakes in the institution.
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We ask your attention to the injuries inflicted upon you and your children, by an institution which lives by your sufferance, and will die at your mandate.
The clog that has stayed the march of her people, the incubus that has weighed down her enterprise, strangled her commerce, kept sealed her exhaustless fountains of mineral wealth, and paralyzed her arts, manufactures and improvement, is…
The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.
If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.