Art thou afraid to trust the women of this country with discretionary power as to petitioning?
Angelina Emily Grimké: “Art thou afraid to trust the women of this country with discretionary power as to petitioning?”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké questions the fear of granting women the power to petition, advocating for their agency.
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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.
Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.