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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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You are told, much of the wealth is invested in negroes--yet it obviously is a wealth that impoverishes; and no stronger evidence of the truth of this assertion is needed, than the comparative price of land in the free and slave States.
We surely need not detain you with farther details on this head, to convince you what an enormous sacrifice of happiness and prosperity you are offering on the altar of slavery.
We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures themselves.
The power of the slaveholders, as we have already showed you, depends on the acquiescence of the major part of the white inhabitants in their domination.