Or that He who raised up a Moses, an Aaron, and a Miriam, to bring them up out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage, cannot now, with a high hand and a stretched out arm, rid the poor negroes out of the hands of their masters?
Grimké expresses faith that God can deliver enslaved people just as He did in biblical times.
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I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
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.
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…