Angelina Emily Grimké: “They understand the work of Reform too well to be driven back by the furious waves of opposition, which are only foaming…”

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.

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.

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

They are decidedly more prosperous than any of those in which the apprenticeship system was adopted, and England is now trying to abolish that system, so fully convinced is she that immediate Emancipation is the safest and the best plan.