On the record
We have already seen the conduct of the slave-holding community to negro offenders; we are now to notice its tender mercies to men of its own color.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan critiques the hypocrisy of the slave-holding community's treatment of both enslaved individuals and white offenders.
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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?
Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.
The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.