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Look at the condition of our country--Church and State deeply involved in the enormous crime of slavery: ah! more--claiming the sacred volume, as our charter for the collar and chain.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké critiques the complicity of both church and state in the institution of slavery, highlighting its moral implications.
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He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.