Angelina Emily Grimké: “And what is more ridiculous than American prejudice; to proscribe and persecute men and women, because their complexions…”

He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.

I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.

I have endeavoured to set before you the exceeding sinfulness of slavery, and to point you to the example of those noble women who have been raised up in the church to effect great revolutions, and to suffer for the truth's sake.

Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.