Angelina Emily Grimké: “Why not let us live in America, if you really love us?”

He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.

There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.

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.

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…