Archibald Henry Grimké: “Sirs, I am not come to tell you that slavery is a curse, debasing in its effects, cruel in its operations, fatal in its…”

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.

Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.

Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?

My friends were prodigal of pity, but of nothing else.