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.
Grimké compares the prosperity of freed individuals to those under an apprenticeship system.
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There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
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.