Angelina Emily Grimké: “But why, I would ask--why are they any more bound to engage in this sacred employment, than men?”

He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.

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.

I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.

I have endeavoured to set before you the exceeding sinfulness of slavery, and to point you to the example of those noble women who have been raised up in the church to effect great revolutions, and to suffer for the truth's sake.