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This awful and horrible punishment has been banished, by the progress of civilization, from the whole of Christendom, with the single exception of the American Slave States.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “This awful and horrible punishment has been banished, by the progress of civilization, from the whole of Christendom…”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan points out the barbarity of burning as a punishment that has been largely eradicated in civilized societies, except in the American South.
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Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.
Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
By abolishing slavery you will become the architects of your own fortune, and of your country's greatness.