Angelina Emily Grimké: “It lifts the beggar from the dunghill, and sets him among princes.”

Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.

She was created, like him, in the image of God, and crowned with glory and honor; created only a little lower than the angels,--not, as is almost universally assumed, a little lower than man; on her brow, as well as on his, was placed the…

How long she will stand by like the persecutor Saul, consenting unto the death of Stephen, and keeping the raiment of them that slew him.

So far from thinking slavery a sin, or that I had no right to own the slaves inherited from my father, I thought no one could venture to dispute that right, any more than he could my right to his land or his stock.