Ah! but this is a foreign influence, more so even than Northern influence; and if the North is ‘a foreign community,’ as thou expressly stylest it, and can on that account produce no influence on the South, how can the doings of England affect her?
Grimké discusses the influence of foreign factors, like Great Britain's actions, on the South's slavery issue.
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The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.
So far from thinking slavery a sin, or that I had no right to own the slaves inherited from my father, I thought no one could venture to dispute that right, any more than he could my right to his land or his stock.
Who labored assiduously to keep the sufferings of the slave continually before the British public?
Those who view with horror the traffic in slaves by ministers of the gospel, express more freely their pain at its indulgence, than I have ever known.