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To make a slave is man-stealing--the ACT itself--to hold him such is man-stealing--the habit, the permanent state, made up of individual acts.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “To make a slave is man-stealing--the ACT itself--to hold him such is man-stealing--the habit, the permanent state, made…”
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Grimké defines both the act of making a slave and the act of holding a slave as forms of man-stealing.
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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 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 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.