Such are the terrific visions which are constantly presenting themselves to the affrighted imaginations of the slaveholders; such the character which, among themselves, they attribute to their own domestics.
Tappan explores the fears and anxieties that slaveholders project onto their enslaved populations.
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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.
The very advertisements in your newspapers show that, for a vast proportion of the comforts and conveniences of life, you are dependent on Northern manufacturers and mechanics.
In both instances the increase has been chiefly owing to immigration; but the ratio shows the influence of slavery in retarding immigration.
Cotton is the product of slave labor, and its profits at home are confined almost exclusively to the slaveholders.