I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow beings in bondage, regarding them as property, than to the holding of a mule or an ox.
Grimké reveals her past justifications for slavery, comparing it to owning livestock.
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They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
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.
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.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.