Angelina Emily Grimké: “Why were Luther and Calvin persecuted and excommunicated, Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer burnt?”

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…

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.

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

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.