The answer to both questions is obvious:--We have lived at the South, as integral parts of the system of slavery, and therefore we know from practical observation and sad experience, quite enough about it already.
Grimké asserts that her and her correspondent's experiences in the South provide them with ample knowledge about slavery without needing further investigation.
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I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.
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.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.