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In this essay, Virginia planter John Taylor considered the topic of agricultural labor. Pointing to the recent Haitian revolution, he warned that slavery could result in a bloody race war in America. Taylor saw whites and blacks as two distinct peoples, or “nations.” He believed that it was unnatural for them to live in the same country together.


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