Angelina Emily Grimké: “He is telling them of that mighty confederacy of petty tyrants which extends over thirteen States of our Union.”

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…

I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.

He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.

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.