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Non-interference is the ominous word which has cast its dark spell over the North and has turned its once warm and active sympathy into cold indifference and cruel apathy.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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Grimké laments the shift from sympathy to indifference in the North regarding the plight of African Americans.
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Sirs, I am not come to tell you that slavery is a curse, debasing in its effects, cruel in its operations, fatal in its continuance.
Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?
During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.
I am invited to occupy a broader field, and to engage in a higher enterprise; that field embraces the whole country--that enterprise is in behalf of the slave population.