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I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.
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Tompkins summarizes his efforts to explain the nature and consequences of slavery, highlighting its impact.
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I repeat again, that it would rejoice my very soul that every one of my fellow beings were emancipated.
Chairman, that God's sun does not shine upon a nobler, prouder, more prosperous, and elevated class of people, than the non-slaveholders of the South.
Have we not reason to suspect that too many of our countrymen have ceased to be virtuous?
It is ruinous to the whites; retards improvement; roots out an industrious population; banishes the yeomanry of the country; deprives the spinner, the weaver, the smith, the shoemaker, the carpenter, of employment and support.
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