The Code Noir of the South robs the slave of all his rights as a man, reduces him to a chattel personal, and defends the master in the exercise of the most unnatural and unwarrantable power over his slave.
Grimké critiques the Code Noir, illustrating its dehumanizing effects on slaves in the South.
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I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
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