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They are powerful appeals and have invariably done the work they were designed to do, and we cannot consent to abandon the use of these until the realities no longer exist.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “They are powerful appeals and have invariably done the work they were designed to do, and we cannot consent to abandon…”
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Grimké emphasizes the effectiveness of appeals in the abolition movement, asserting their historical success.
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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.
What can I say more, my friends, to induce you to set your hands, and heads, and hearts, to this great work of justice and mercy.
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.