Sold at auction, either individually, or in lots to suit the purchaser, he may remain with his family, or be separated from them for ever.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “Sold at auction, either individually, or in lots to suit the purchaser, he may remain with his family, or be separated…”
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Grimké illustrates the harsh reality that slaves can be sold away from their families, potentially forever.
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They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
They are decidedly more prosperous than any of those in which the apprenticeship system was adopted, and England is now trying to abolish that system, so fully convinced is she that immediate Emancipation is the safest and the best plan.
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He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.