We believe that we have most to fear from the organised action upon the consciences and fears of the slaveholders themselves; from the insinuations of their dangerous heresies into our schools, our pulpits, and our domestic circles.
Grimké warns that the greatest threat to slavery comes from the moral awakening of slaveholders rather than from slave insurrections.
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No station or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.
A slaveholding religion--and multitudes of them became slaveholders.
My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.
I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow beings in bondage, regarding them as property, than to the holding of a mule or an ox.