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We wish to impress upon you the danger and corruption to which you and your children are exposed from the institution, which, as we have shown you, exists by your sufferance.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “We wish to impress upon you the danger and corruption to which you and your children are exposed from the institution…”
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Tappan warns non-slaveholders about the dangers and corruption that the institution of slavery poses to their families.
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The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.
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