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In the meantime, especially in the cotton States, the slaves will continue to increase in a ratio far beyond the whites, and will at length acquire a fearful preponderance.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “In the meantime, especially in the cotton States, the slaves will continue to increase in a ratio far beyond the whites…”
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Tappan warns about the demographic shift in the cotton states, highlighting the potential power imbalance between slaves and whites.
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Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.
When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.
We ask your attention to the injuries inflicted upon you and your children, by an institution which lives by your sufferance, and will die at your mandate.
You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is necessarily discouraged.