Angelina Emily Grimké: “Onesimus could not then have been a slave, for slaves do not own their wives, or children; no, not even their own…”

Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.

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.

There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.

Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.