Angelina Emily Grimké: “A slaveholding religion--and multitudes of them became slaveholders.”

Thy remarks on the subject of prejudice, show but too plainly how strongly thy own mind is imbued with it, and how little thy colonization principles have done to exterminate this feeling from thy own bosom.

The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation.

The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of the lowest ignorance.

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.