Lewis Tappan: “With the exception of cotton, it is difficult to distinguish your…”

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With the exception of cotton, it is difficult to distinguish your agricultural products arising from slaves, and from free labor.

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Lewis Tappan

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Tappan discusses the difficulty in distinguishing agricultural products from slave versus free labor, except for cotton.

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In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.

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Lewis Tappan: “With the exception of cotton, it is difficult to distinguish your agricultural products arising from slaves, and from…”