They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of…”
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Grimké clarifies that violence was caused by attempts to re-enslave freed individuals, not by emancipation itself.
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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.
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