On the record
Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of…”
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This quote reflects the extreme lengths to which slaveholders go to suppress acknowledgment of black rights.
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Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.
They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.
When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.
But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.