Their violent expressions of horror at such accounts being believed may deceive some, but they cannot deceive me, for I lived too long in the midst of slavery, not to know what slavery is.
Grimké reflects on her personal experience with slavery, asserting that it informs her understanding of its true nature.
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Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
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 can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.