When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness.
Grimké argues that when viewed as moral beings, gender becomes insignificant in the context of rights and responsibilities.
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Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
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.
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.