Archibald Henry Grimké: “The sound of their childlike joy was heard in the land amid the grim desolations of war and the sullen faces of their…”

When he had ceased speaking I said to those around me: 'That is a providential man; he is a prophet; he will shake our nation to its center, but he will shake slavery out of it.

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

Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.

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.