Angelina Emily Grimké: “Did these holy women of old perform all their gospel labors in ‘the domestic and social circle’?”

They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.

I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.

Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.

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.