So far from thinking slavery a sin, or that I had no right to own the slaves inherited from my father, I thought no one could venture to dispute that right, any more than he could my right to his land or his stock.
Grimké reflects on her belief in the legitimacy of her inherited slave ownership before her change of heart.
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O! the deep, DEEP injury which such unfaithful ministers have inflicted on the South!
Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.
How long she will stand by like the persecutor Saul, consenting unto the death of Stephen, and keeping the raiment of them that slew him.
Those who view with horror the traffic in slaves by ministers of the gospel, express more freely their pain at its indulgence, than I have ever known.