If there were no consumers of slave-produce there would be no slaves

If there were no consumers of slave-produce there would be no slaves

Slavery and Abolition

Anti-slavery pamphlets included in the papers of George Washington Taylor's free labor store.

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"IF THERE WERE NO CONSUMERS OF SLAVE—PRODUCE THERE WOULD BE NO SLAVES. Can we employ another in the commis¬ sion of robbery, share the profits with him, and yet be innocent of the crime we induced him to commit, by the glittering bribe we offerd for the commission? It is clear to the comprehension of those who will take the trouble to exam¬ ine the subject, that the northern mer¬ chant who purchases the cotton, sugar and rice of the southern planter—the proud and haughty planter, the task master who plies the gory lash to the lacerated back of the toiling slave, to extract the greatest possible amount of labor,—the auctioneer who cries his human wares m the market, and who sells these helpless victims of cupidity like oxen in the shambles; yea, even the heartless, mur¬ derous slave-trader, are each and all of them, only so many agents, employed by and for the consumer in extracting and transferring to him the products of the unrequited toil, of the poor down trodden suffering slave. Let the consumer of slave produce ask himself, if he can advance a single argu¬ ment in favour of his self-indulgence, which might not be offered with equal force by the slaveholder. E. Harris, Printer. Jk