No! upon native born American Republican citizens, although the fathers of these very men declared to the whole world, while struggling to free themselves the three penny taxes of an English king, that they believed it to be a self-evident truth that all men were created equal, and had an unalienable right to liberty.
Grimké critiques the contradiction between the founding principles of the United States and the reality of slavery.
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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…
He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.
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.