On the record
You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is necessarily discouraged.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is…”
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Tappan asserts that slavery has made labor shameful in the South, discouraging industriousness.
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