One would really suppose that man, as her lord and master, was the gracious giver of her rights, and that these rights were bestowed upon her by ‘the promptings of chivalry, and the poetry of romantic gallantry,’--out of the abundance of his honor, rectitude and love.
Grimké satirizes the notion that men are the sole givers of women's rights, highlighting the absurdity of such beliefs.
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The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation.
O! the deep, DEEP injury which such unfaithful ministers have inflicted on the South!
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.
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.