Angelina Emily Grimké: “As to preachers, let me assure thee, that they never have dared to preach on the subject of slavery in my native city…”

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.

I have become a convert to political, and I trust, also, to Christian Freedom.

So far from it, that I have invariably heard those who understood the principles of the Anti-Slavery Society best, deny that it was a duty to go to the South, not because they would be killed, but because the North was guilty, and…

I think the abolitionists have done, and are doing a great deal of good, by holding slavery up to the public gaze.