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It is so commonly taken for granted, that every white man at the South is a slaveholder, that many will doubtingly inquire, where are these non-slaveholding citizens to be found?
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan challenges the common assumption that all white men in the South are slaveholders, prompting a reflection on the existence of non-slaveholding citizens.
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Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.
If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.
It is also a matter of notoriety, that the price of slaves has been and still is such as to confine their possession almost exclusively to the rich.
They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.