For every movement against a great social wrong as was the anti-slavery movement must have its John-the-Baptist stage, its period of popular awakening to the nature and enormity of sin and the duty of immediate repentance.
Grimké compares the anti-slavery movement to a religious awakening, emphasizing the need for societal recognition of wrongdoing.
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It is true many a cheek burns with shame in view of our national inconsistency, and many a heart bleeds for the miserable African.
I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.
I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.
During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.