No longer could I close my eyes to the evils of slavery, nor could I any longer despise the abolitionists, ‘the only true friends of their country and kind.’ I now think, I know, I have no more right to own slaves, whether I inherited them or not, than I have to encourage the African slave trade.
Grimké acknowledges her moral awakening, equating the ownership of slaves to supporting the slave trade.
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Who labored assiduously to keep the sufferings of the slave continually before the British public?
The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.
Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.
How long she will stand by like the persecutor Saul, consenting unto the death of Stephen, and keeping the raiment of them that slew him.