Such an act will be clear robbery, and if exposed, might, under the Divine direction, do the cause of Emancipation more good, than any thing that could happen, for, "He makes even the wrath of man to praise him, and the remainder of wrath he will restrain.
Grimké argues that exposing the crime of manstealing can further the cause of emancipation.
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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.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.