When the prophet Isaiah commanded the Jews ‘to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke,’ he taught no gradual or partial emancipation, but immediate, universal emancipation.
Grimké cites the prophet Isaiah to advocate for immediate and total emancipation.
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The fact is, we need no excuse for not going to the South, so long as the North is as deeply involved in the guilt of slavery as she is, and as blind to her duty.
Surely you believe that his aim is not shortened that he cannot save.
How long she will stand by like the persecutor Saul, consenting unto the death of Stephen, and keeping the raiment of them that slew him.
O! the deep, DEEP injury which such unfaithful ministers have inflicted on the South!