He can take care of them; but if for wise purposes he sees fit to allow them to be sold, this will afford you an opportunity of testifying openly, wherever you go, against the crime of manstealing.
Grimké expresses faith in divine providence while advocating for the protection of freed slaves.
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And why not try it in the Southern States, if it never has occasioned rebellion; if not a drop of blood has ever been shed in consequence of it, though it has been so often tried, why should we suppose it would produce such disastrous…
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.