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We have begun our work here, because pro-slavery men of the North are to the system of slavery just what temperate drinkers were to the vice of intemperance.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké compares Northern pro-slavery individuals to temperate drinkers who enable the vice of intemperance, highlighting their complicity in slavery.
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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.
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…
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.