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If they were mere things, why were they regarded as responsible beings, and one law made for them as well as for their masters?
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “If they were mere things, why were they regarded as responsible beings, and one law made for them as well as for their…”
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Grimké questions the logic behind treating enslaved people as mere property while holding them accountable under the law.
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Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
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.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.