I dare not, in view of such a system, tell the slaveholder, that ‘he is physically unable to emancipate his slaves.’ I say he is able to let the oppressed go free, and that such heaven-daring atrocities ought to cease now, henceforth and forever.
She challenges the notion that slaveholders are incapable of freeing their slaves, calling for immediate action against oppression.
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