Or perhaps like Pilate, thinking they could prevail nothing, and fearing a tumult, they determined to release Barabbas and surrender the just man, the poor innocent slave to be stripped of his rights and scourged.
Grimké draws a parallel between historical figures and contemporary attitudes towards slavery, emphasizing moral failure.
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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.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.