Thousands and tens of thousands never were, their fathers never have received the poor compensation of silver or gold for the tears and toils, the suffering, and anguish, and hopeless bondage of their daughters.
Grimké emphasizes the suffering of enslaved daughters, whose fathers did not receive compensation for their loss.
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There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.
They are decidedly more prosperous than any of those in which the apprenticeship system was adopted, and England is now trying to abolish that system, so fully convinced is she that immediate Emancipation is the safest and the best plan.