Archibald Henry Grimké: “Their condition is as much superior to that of the slaves as the light of heaven is more cheering than the darkness of…”

This sounds amazing and it is amazing because it fits the Negro's case so exactly, because it is an accurate description of his condition as an agricultural laborer in many of the Southern states.

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.

Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage?