Angelina Emily Grimké: “Just give us as long a time, or half that time, and then thou wilt be a far better judge of the expediency or…”

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

I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.

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

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.