Thou sayest, ‘this tended to irritate the whites, and to increase their prejudices against the blacks.’ The truth always irritates the proud, impenitent sinner.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “Thou sayest, ‘this tended to irritate the whites, and to increase their prejudices against the blacks.’ The truth always…”
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Grimké asserts that the truth often provokes anger in those who are proud and unrepentant.
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Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
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 attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.
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.