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It is then the Christians and the honorable men and women of the South, who are the main pillars of this grand temple built to Mammon and to Moloch.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “It is then the Christians and the honorable men and women of the South, who are the main pillars of this grand temple…”
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Grimké condemns the complicity of Christians in supporting the institution of slavery, likening it to worshiping false idols.
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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.
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.
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.