How long she will stand by like the persecutor Saul, consenting unto the death of Stephen, and keeping the raiment of them that slew him.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “How long she will stand by like the persecutor Saul, consenting unto the death of Stephen, and keeping the raiment of…”
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Grimké compares the North's inaction on slavery to the biblical figure Saul's complicity in violence.
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He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
I have endeavoured to set before you the exceeding sinfulness of slavery, and to point you to the example of those noble women who have been raised up in the church to effect great revolutions, and to suffer for the truth's sake.
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.