To protect servants from violence, it was ordained that if a master struck out the tooth or destroyed the eye of a servant, that servant immediately became free, for such an act of violence evidently showed he was unfit to possess the power of a master, and therefore that power was taken from him.
Grimké argues that violent acts by masters against servants demonstrate their unfitness to hold power over others.
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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.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.