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The very idea of an armed negro startles their fearful imaginations.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “The very idea of an armed negro startles their fearful imaginations.”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan reflects on the fear and anxiety surrounding the idea of armed Black individuals in the South.
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The power of the slaveholders, as we have already showed you, depends on the acquiescence of the major part of the white inhabitants in their domination.
They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.
We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures themselves.
You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.