It is producing the happiest influence upon the minds and hearts of those who are engaged in it; just such results as Thomas Clarkson tells us, were produced in England by the agitation of the subject there.
Grimké reflects on the positive impact of the abolitionist movement, comparing it to historical movements in England.
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What kind of religion did northern men come down and preach to us?
What more do we need to show us the bloody hands and iron heart of Slavery?
I shall never forget my feelings when the subject was first hit upon in the Evangelist.
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.