Yet, what is slavery but a breaking and treading down of the whole ten, what but a vast system of adultery, robbery, and murder, the daily and yearly infraction on an appalling scale not alone of the spirit but of the letter of the decalogue?
Grimké condemns slavery as a violation of all moral commandments, equating it to severe moral crimes.
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I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.
O Freedom! how are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nursed; What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors of the New Day burst.
At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.
Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.