Archibald Henry Grimké: “If anti-slavery meetings made converts by tens, anti-slavery mobs made…”

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If anti-slavery meetings made converts by tens, anti-slavery mobs made them by hundreds.

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Archibald Henry Grimké

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Grimké observed that while anti-slavery meetings converted individuals slowly, violent mobs rapidly increased support for the cause.

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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.

I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.

It is a gangrene preying upon our vitals--an earthquake rumbling under our feet--a mine accumulating material for a national catastrophe.

To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.

Archibald Henry Grimké: “If anti-slavery meetings made converts by tens, anti-slavery mobs made them by hundreds.”