Lewis Tappan: “Here then we have an appalling proof of the paralyzing influence of…”

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Here then we have an appalling proof of the paralyzing influence of slavery on the industry of the whites.

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Lewis Tappan

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Tappan presents slavery as a debilitating force on the economic productivity of white Southerners.

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Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.

Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?

Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.

You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.

Lewis Tappan: “Here then we have an appalling proof of the paralyzing influence of slavery on the industry of the whites.”