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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.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan argues that the power of slaveholders relies on the compliance of the majority of white citizens.
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Cotton is the product of slave labor, and its profits at home are confined almost exclusively to the slaveholders.
No other cause can be assigned than slavery, which drives from your borders many of the virtuous and enterprising, and at the same time deters emigrants from other States and from foreign countries from settling among you.
The slaveholders form a powerful landed aristocracy, banded together for the preservation of their own privileges, and ever endeavoring, for obvious reasons, to identify their private interests with the public welfare.
Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.