They had opportunity enough and provocation enough, God knows, to attack the property and the lives of the defenseless families of their hard task-masters during those four dreadful years of sectional strife.
Grimké acknowledges the potential for violence among freedmen during the war but notes their restraint.
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Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?
No body of men on the face of the earth deserve their charities, and prayers, and united assistance so much as the slaves of this country; and yet they are almost entirely neglected.
My friends were prodigal of pity, but of nothing else.
I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.