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100	1		_aTappan, Lewis, _d1788-1873
245	1	0	_aAddress to the Non-Slaveholders of the South : _bon the Social and Political Evils of Slavery
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2012
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2012-10-25
508			_aProduced by Jonathan Ingram, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a"Address to the Non-Slaveholders of the South" by Lewis Tappan is a political treatise written in the mid-19th century. The work directly addresses the non-slaveholding white population in the southern United States, highlighting the detrimental effects of slavery on their social and economic condition. Tappan argues that slavery benefits only a minority of wealthy slaveholders, while it impoverishes the vast majority of the population, and he encourages the non-slaveholders to recognize their power to abolish the institution. The opening of the text presents Tappan's compelling argument that slavery is not only a moral evil but also a social and economic burden on non-slaveholding citizens. He begins by challenging the prevailing belief that all white southerners are benefitting from the system of slavery, emphasizing that the wealth of planters is built on the exploitation of slave labor. As he cites statistics and comparisons between slave states and free states, Tappan illustrates the stagnation of Southern society compared to the prosperity found in free areas, urging his audience to awaken to their own disenfranchisement and take action against the institution of slavery that undermines their wellbeing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_nOriginal publication data not identified
653			_aSlavery -- United States
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41173
999			_c82012 _d82012