Angelina Emily Grimké: “The Bible then is the book I want you to read in the spirit of inquiry, and the spirit of prayer.”

I have endeavoured to set before you the exceeding sinfulness of slavery, and to point you to the example of those noble women who have been raised up in the church to effect great revolutions, and to suffer for the truth's sake.

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.

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.

He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.