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God designs to confer this holy privilege upon man; it is through his instrumentality that the great and glorious work of reforming the world is to be done.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké emphasizes the importance of men's roles in societal reform as divinely intended.
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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.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
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.