Not the man who stole their forefathers from Africa, but he who now holds them in bondage; no matter how they came into his possession, whether he inherited them, or bought them, or seized them at their birth on his own plantation.
She clarifies that the current slaveholder is as culpable as the original captor of slaves.
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O! the deep, DEEP injury which such unfaithful ministers have inflicted on the South!
Those who view with horror the traffic in slaves by ministers of the gospel, express more freely their pain at its indulgence, than I have ever known.
What kind of religion did the North prepare them to preach?
No station or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.