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Think you your planting nobility will ever grant freedom to their serfs, from sentiments of piety or patriotism?
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Think you your planting nobility will ever grant freedom to their serfs, from sentiments of piety or patriotism?”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan expresses skepticism about the willingness of wealthy planters to grant freedom to enslaved individuals out of moral considerations.
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But what a commentary on slavery and slaveholders is afforded by the gross ignorance prevailing in the old States of South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina!
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