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Yea more, these persons have committed to us the custody even of their lives, thus encountering imminent peril that they might cheer us onward in our work.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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She acknowledges the trust placed in abolitionists by those risking their lives to support the movement.
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I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
And why not try it in the Southern States, if it never has occasioned rebellion; if not a drop of blood has ever been shed in consequence of it, though it has been so often tried, why should we suppose it would produce such disastrous…
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.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.