The first act robbed the man of himself; and the same state of mind that prompted that act, keeps up the series, having taken his all from him: it keeps his all from him, not only refusing to restore, but still robbing him of all he gets, and as fast as he gets it.
Grimké describes the ongoing nature of the theft of a person's rights and possessions through slavery.
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