Thus have all the diversified relations of life been filled with ‘confusion and every evil work.’ This principle has given to man a charter for the exercise of tyranny and selfishness, pride and arrogance, lust and brutal violence.
Grimké discusses how the misapplication of gender roles has led to societal chaos and moral decay.
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I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.
And why not try it in the Southern States, if it never has occasioned rebellion; if not a drop of blood has ever been shed in consequence of it, though it has been so often tried, why should we suppose it would produce such disastrous…
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.
He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.