This will be striking the dagger into the very heart of the monster, and once 'tis done, he must soon expire.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “This will be striking the dagger into the very heart of the monster, and once 'tis done, he must soon expire.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké uses a metaphor to describe the decisive action needed to end slavery.
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They are decidedly more prosperous than any of those in which the apprenticeship system was adopted, and England is now trying to abolish that system, so fully convinced is she that immediate Emancipation is the safest and the best plan.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
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.