Angelina Emily Grimké: “These are high charges, but I appeal to their hearts; I appeal to public opinion ten years from now.”

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.

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.

They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.

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