He may be exchanged for marketable commodities, or taken in execution for the debts or taxes either of a living or dead master.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “He may be exchanged for marketable commodities, or taken in execution for the debts or taxes either of a living or dead…”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké explains that slaves can be treated as commodities, exchanged or sold at the master's discretion.
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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.
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.
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.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.