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No! the taunts of a New England woman will induce no abolitionist to cease his rebuke of northern slaveholders and apologists for slavery.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké asserts that no amount of criticism from New England women will deter abolitionists from their mission against slavery.
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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.
They are decidedly more prosperous than any of those in which the apprenticeship system was adopted, and England is now trying to abolish that system, so fully convinced is she that immediate Emancipation is the safest and the best plan.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.