Each one of these societies is walking abroad through the earth scattering the seeds of truth over the wide field of our world, not with the hundred hands of a Briareus, but with a hundred thousand.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “Each one of these societies is walking abroad through the earth scattering the seeds of truth over the wide field of our…”
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Grimké illustrates the widespread impact of reform societies in spreading truth.
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Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
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.
Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.