Angelina Emily Grimké: “The labor of the slave is compulsory and uncompensated; while the kind of labor, the amount of toil, the time allowed…”

What can I say more, my friends, to induce you to set your hands, and heads, and hearts, to this great work of justice and mercy.

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.

They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.

And why not try it in the Southern States, if it never has occasioned rebellion; if not a drop of blood has ever been shed in consequence of it, though it has been so often tried, why should we suppose it would produce such disastrous…