Angelina Emily Grimké: “Read the Bible then, it contains the words of Jesus, and they are spirit and life.”

I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.

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.

I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.

They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.