Angelina Emily Grimké: “Be not surprised when I say such wicked laws ought to be no barrier in the way of your duty, and I appeal to the Bible…”

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.

Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.

They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.

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…