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But these markets are already glutted, and human flesh has fallen in value from 50 to 75 per cent.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “But these markets are already glutted, and human flesh has fallen in value from 50 to 75 per cent.”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan notes the declining value of enslaved people in the market due to oversupply, indicating a shift in the economic landscape of slavery.
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Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.
You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.
Do you ask that your children may be rescued from the ignorance and irreligion to which they are now doomed, and that avenues may be opened for you and for them to honest and profitable employment?
By abolishing slavery you will become the architects of your own fortune, and of your country's greatness.