Lewis Tappan: “We will present for your consideration a series of atrocities, perpetrated, not by individuals in secret, but in open…”

But what a commentary on slavery and slaveholders is afforded by the gross ignorance prevailing in the old States of South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina!

We might as well talk of poor men owning herds of cattle and studs of horses, as gangs of negroes.

In a community so unenlightened as yours, it is a matter of course, that the arts and sciences must languish, and the industry and enterprise of the country be oppressed by a general torpor.

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.