On the record
You well know how incessantly the work of human slaughter is going on among you: and no reader of your public journals can be ignorant of the frequent occurrence of your deadly street fights.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “You well know how incessantly the work of human slaughter is going on among you: and no reader of your public journals…”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan points out the ongoing violence in Southern communities, urging awareness among the public about the brutality occurring around them.
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But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.
If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.
You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is necessarily discouraged.
It is so commonly taken for granted, that every white man at the South is a slaveholder, that many will doubtingly inquire, where are these non-slaveholding citizens to be found?