Is not the South sowing into the souls of both races the seeds of sin and violence, and shall it not then reap its full crop of crime and misery, the wild and anarchic harvest of the whirlwind?
Grimké questions the moral implications of the South's actions, predicting a future of crime and misery as a result of its current path.
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I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.
This sounds amazing and it is amazing because it fits the Negro's case so exactly, because it is an accurate description of his condition as an agricultural laborer in many of the Southern states.
O Freedom! how are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nursed; What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors of the New Day burst.
Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?