Angelina Emily Grimké: “I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow…”

The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of the lowest ignorance.

I shall never forget my feelings when the subject was first hit upon in the Evangelist.

Now the Bible is my ultimate appeal in all matters of faith and practice, and it is to this test I am anxious to bring the subject at issue between us.

Now it appears to me, so far from her station forbidding all interference to modify the character and conduct of her employer, that that station peculiarly qualifies her for the difficult and delicate task, because nursery maids often know…