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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The hopes of the world depend, under God, upon the success of your cause.
I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow beings in bondage, regarding them as property, than to the holding of a mule or an ox.
What dost thou mean by saying, her rights are the gifts of honor, rectitude and love?
Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.