Great numbers cannot bear the idea of equality, and fearing lest, if they had the same advantages we enjoy, they would become as intelligent, as moral, as religious, and as respectable and wealthy, they are determined to keep them as low as they possibly can.
Grimké critiques the fear of equality that drives some to maintain racial hierarchies.
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I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.