Angelina Emily Grimké: “What can I say more, my friends, to induce you to set your hands, and heads, and hearts, to this great work of justice…”

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

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 have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.

There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.