The Northern merchants and manufacturers are making their fortunes out of the produce of slave labor; the grocer is selling your rice and sugar; how then can these men bear a testimony against slavery without condemning themselves?
Grimké points out the economic benefits that Northern merchants gain from slave labor, questioning their anti-slavery claims.
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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.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
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.