Now the Bible is my ultimate appeal in all matters of faith and practice, and it is to this test I am anxious to bring the subject at issue between us.
Angelina Emily Grimké
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Angelina Emily Grimké Weld was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. At one point she was the best known, or "most notorious," woman in the country. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were considered the only notable examples of white Southern women abolitionists. The sisters lived together as adults, while Angelina was the wife of abolitionist leader Theodore Dwight Weld.
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All that sophistry of argument which has been employed to prove, that although it is sinful to send to Africa to procure men and women as slaves, who have never been in slavery, that still, it is not sinful to keep those in bondage who…
Because moral, like natural light, is so extremely subtle in its nature as to overleap all human barriers, and laugh at the puny efforts of man to control it.
But believe me, when I tell you, their attempts will be as utterly fruitless as were the efforts of the builders of Babel; and why?
To all of you then, known or unknown, relatives or strangers, (for you are all one in Christ,) I would speak.
But I feel an interest in you, as branches of the same vine from whose root I daily draw the principle of spiritual vitality--Yes!
I thanked you then for your kindness, and I ask you now, for the sake of former confidence, and former friendship, to read the following pages in the spirit of calm investigation and fervent prayer.
Perhaps on a dying bed thou mayest vainly wish that ‘Miss Beecher on the Slave Question’ might perish with the mouldering hand which penned its cold and heartless pages.
Where, oh where, in its pages, are the outpourings of a soul overwhelmed with a sense of the heinous crimes of our nation, and the necessity of immediate repentance?
I greatly fear that thy book might have been written just as well, hadst thou not had the heart of a woman.
Oh, listen and weep, and let thy repentings be kindled together, and speedily bring forth, I beseech thee, fruits meet for repentance, and henceforth show thyself faithful to Christ and his bleeding representative the slave.
Hast thou thought of these things? or carest thou not for the blessings and the prayers of these our suffering brethren?