In my opinion, thou hast robbed both the one and the other of all their true dignity and glory.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “In my opinion, thou hast robbed both the one and the other of all their true dignity and glory.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké critiques the misrepresentation of dignity in the context of slavery and gender.
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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.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
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.