Even the enemies of Abolitionists, acknowledge that their doctrines are drawn from it.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “Even the enemies of Abolitionists, acknowledge that their doctrines are drawn from it.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké notes that even opponents of abolition recognize that abolitionist beliefs are rooted in biblical teachings.
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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.
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.
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.
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.