| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The loss would fall heaviest, of course, upon the slave owner; but in a state such as Tennessee, where the taxable value of slave property exceeded $100,000,000, it did not require a shrewd economist to see that ultimately this loss in the aggregate wealth of the state must be distributed, by taxation and the increased difficulty of earning a living, among the poorer, non-slaveholding classes as w
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