Above all, try to persuade your husband, father, brothers and sons, that slavery is a crime against God and man, and that it is a great sin to keep human beings in such abject ignorance; to deny them the privilege of learning to read and write.
Grimké calls on women to persuade their male relatives that slavery is a moral crime and to support education for enslaved individuals.
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Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.
He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.