On the record
The slave being considered a personal chattel may be sold or pledged, or leased at the will of his master.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “The slave being considered a personal chattel may be sold or pledged, or leased at the will of his master.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké points out that slaves are treated as personal property, subject to the whims of their masters.
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Send us facts--send us kind remonstrance and manly reasoning.
I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow beings in bondage, regarding them as property, than to the holding of a mule or an ox.
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.
I shall never forget my feelings when the subject was first hit upon in the Evangelist.