Project Gutenberg 2012-10-25 Public domain in the USA. 150 Tappan, Lewis 1788 1873 11007398 Address to the Non-Slaveholders of the South on the Social and Political Evils of Slavery Produced 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) "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.) Reading ease score: 55.8 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Slavery -- United States E300 Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: Politics Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: History - American Category: Politics 207819 2025-06-16T16:49:21.408713 text/html 207797 2012-10-24T19:09:06 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 151507 2025-06-16T16:49:29.241655 application/epub+zip 152538 2025-06-16T16:49:24.895682 application/epub+zip 143982 2025-06-16T16:49:23.526683 application/epub+zip 340233 2025-06-16T16:49:32.290681 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 317685 2025-06-16T16:49:28.316687 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 297072 2022-09-18T19:12:49.257180 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 174586 2023-09-18T05:18:09.413991 text/plain 15785 2025-06-16T16:49:32.439624 application/rdf+xml 17809 2025-06-16T16:49:24.106715 image/jpeg 3940 2025-06-16T16:49:23.811685 image/jpeg 147534 2025-06-16T16:49:21.426699 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia