I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow beings in bondage, regarding them as property, than to the holding of a mule or an ox.
Grimké reveals her past justifications for slavery, comparing it to owning livestock.
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What can I say more, my friends, to induce you to set your hands, and heads, and hearts, to this great work of justice and mercy.
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.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.