Now I believe with thee, that the tendencies of the age are toward Emancipation; but I contend that nothing but free discussion has produced this tendency--‘the present agitation of the subject’ is in fact the thing which is producing this happy tendency.
Grimké asserts that free discussion is essential for the movement towards emancipation.
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