On the record
No sooner shall the negroes cease to be oppressed, than they will cease to hate.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “No sooner shall the negroes cease to be oppressed, than they will cease to hate.”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan argues that ending oppression would lead to the cessation of hatred from enslaved people.
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Hence with them slavery is the INSTITUTION of the SOUTH, while it is in fact the institution of only a portion of the people of the south.
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.
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!
But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.