This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.
Grimké points out the unique legal barriers that restrict the movement of African American laborers compared to other groups in the U.S.
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Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?
When he had ceased speaking I said to those around me: 'That is a providential man; he is a prophet; he will shake our nation to its center, but he will shake slavery out of it.
But ignorance is a breeder of crime just as poverty is.
It is a gangrene preying upon our vitals--an earthquake rumbling under our feet--a mine accumulating material for a national catastrophe.