It is because we are politically, commercially, and socially connected with our southern brethren, that we urge our doctrines upon those of the free States.
Angelina Emily Grimké
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Angelina Emily Grimké Weld was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. At one point she was the best known, or "most notorious," woman in the country. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were considered the only notable examples of white Southern women abolitionists. The sisters lived together as adults, while Angelina was the wife of abolitionist leader Theodore Dwight Weld.
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We have begun our work here, because pro-slavery men of the North are to the system of slavery just what temperate drinkers were to the vice of intemperance.
And as soon as we reform the recreant sons and daughters of the North,--as soon as we rectify public opinion at the North,--then I, for one, will promise to go down into the midst of slaveholders themselves, to promulgate our doctrines in…
No! the taunts of a New England woman will induce no abolitionist to cease his rebuke of northern slaveholders and apologists for slavery.
Had I not been convinced of this before, surely thy book would have been all-sufficient to satisfy me of it; for a more subtle defence of the slaveholder’s right to property in his helpless victims, I never saw.
It is just such a defence as the hidden enemies of Liberty will rejoice to see, because, like thyself, they earnestly desire to ‘avoid the appearance of evil;’ they are as much opposed to slavery as we are, only they are as much opposed to…
Or may we not fairly conclude, that he or she that is not for the slave, in deed and in truth, is against him, no matter how specious their professions of pity for his condition?
I will leave thee and my other readers to make the application of this comparison; and if thou dost not acknowledge that abolitionists have been governed by the soundest common sense in the course they have pursued at the North with regard…
By all our printing and talking at the North, we have actually reached the very heart of the disease at the South.
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
If further evidence is needed, that anti-slavery societies are producing a powerful influence at the South, look at the efforts made there to vilify and crush them.
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.