My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.”
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Grimké states that if it is morally right for men to act in a certain way, it is equally right for women to do so.
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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.
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.
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…
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.