Angelina Emily Grimké: “On the great day of atonement every fiftieth year the Jubilee trumpet was sounded throughout the land of Judea, and…”

Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.

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.

I have endeavoured to set before you the exceeding sinfulness of slavery, and to point you to the example of those noble women who have been raised up in the church to effect great revolutions, and to suffer for the truth's sake.

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.