If for instance, there was a law, which imposed imprisonment or a fine upon me if I manumitted a slave, I would on no account resist that law, I would set the slave free, and then go to prison or pay the fine.
Grimké emphasizes her commitment to freeing slaves, even at the cost of imprisonment or fines.
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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 shall never forget my feelings when the subject was first hit upon in the Evangelist.
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.
What kind of religion did the North prepare them to preach?