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Southerners may deny the truth of these accounts, but why do they not prove them to be false?
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “Southerners may deny the truth of these accounts, but why do they not prove them to be false?”
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Grimké challenges the denial of slavery's realities by Southerners, urging them to provide evidence against the accounts of its horrors.
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He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.
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.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.