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The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.”
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Tappan highlights the stark differences in population dynamics between Kentucky and Ohio as influenced by slavery.
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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.
If we are permitted to apply this rule in testing the moral condition of the South, the result will not be favorable.
Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.
Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.