Why, the mouths of Abolitionists, to be sure--even our infant school children know this.
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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Strange indeed, when the labors of these men are actually rolling back the car of Emancipation for one or two centuries!
Why, the South ought to pour out her treasure, to support Anti-Slavery agents, and print Anti-Slavery papers and pamphlets, and do all she can to aid us in rolling back Emancipation.
We say, we have the right, and mean to exercise it.
I believe that every northern Legislature has a right, and ought to use the right, to send a solemn remonstrance to every southern Legislature on the subject of slavery.
Just as much right as the South has to send up a remonstrance against our free presses, free pens, and free tongues.
Let the North follow her example; but, instead of asking her to enslave her subjects, entreat her to free them.
Therefore, we affirm, that every slaveholder is a man-stealer.
We do so, for the following reasons: to steal a man is to rob him of himself.
It matters not whether this be done in Guinea, or Carolina; a man is a man, and as a man he has inalienable rights, among which is the right to personal liberty.
Now if every man has an inalienable right to personal liberty, it follows, that he cannot rightfully be reduced to slavery.
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.