Angelina Emily Grimké: “If slaveholders are determined to hold slaves as long as they can, let them not dare to say that the God of mercy and of…”

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.

Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.

And why not try it in the Southern States, if it never has occasioned rebellion; if not a drop of blood has ever been shed in consequence of it, though it has been so often tried, why should we suppose it would produce such disastrous…

What can I say more, my friends, to induce you to set your hands, and heads, and hearts, to this great work of justice and mercy.