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Where, then, I would ask, is the warrant, the justification, or the palliation of American Slavery from Hebrew servitude?
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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She questions the justification of American slavery in light of biblical servitude, seeking to highlight its moral failings.
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Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
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.