Angelina Emily Grimké: “Is the poor runaway slave protected by law from the violence of that master whose oppression and cruelty has driven him…”

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.

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

There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.

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…