No, my friend, they acted precisely upon the false principle which thou hast recommended; their pity was excited, their sentiments of generosity were called into exercise, because they regarded the colored man as an unfortunate inferior, rather than as an outraged and insulted equal.
Grimké critiques the misguided pity that sees the colored man as inferior rather than equal.
Share
More from Angelina Emily Grimké
Instead of being in love with the virtue exhibited by the individual, because it is virtue, he is delighted with the personal convenience he experiences from the exercise of that virtue.
The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation.
The laws greatly obstruct the manumission of slaves, even where the master is willing to enfranchise them.
The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.