To acknowledge the right, or to tolerate the act of interference at all with this institution, is to give it up--to abandon it entirely; and, as this must be the consummation of any interference, the sooner it is reached the better.
Grimké argues that tolerating any interference with slavery equates to abandoning the institution altogether.
Share
More from Angelina Emily Grimké
I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow beings in bondage, regarding them as property, than to the holding of a mule or an ox.
Thou thinkest I have not been ‘sufficiently informed in regard to the feelings and opinions of Christian females at the North’ on the subject of slavery; for that in fact they hold the same principles with Abolitionists, although they…
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.
The fact is, the South is enraged, because we have exposed her horrible hypocrisy to the world.