Archibald Henry Grimké: “This is a well-known Southern method for multiplying Negro criminals to meet the demands of Southern employers of cheap…”

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

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

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

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.