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Slaves cannot redeem themselves, or obtain a change of masters, though cruel treatment may have' rendered such a change necessary for their personal safety.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “Slaves cannot redeem themselves, or obtain a change of masters, though cruel treatment may have' rendered such a change…”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké asserts that slaves cannot escape their conditions, even when facing cruel treatment.
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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.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
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.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.