Angelina Emily Grimké: “Surely you never want to ‘get rid’ of people whom you love.”

They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.

I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.

What can I say more, my friends, to induce you to set your hands, and heads, and hearts, to this great work of justice and mercy.

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