The slave is not allowed to resist any free man under any circumstances, his only safety consists in the fact that his owner may bring suit and recover the price of his body, in case his life is taken, or his limbs rendered unfit for labor.
Grimké points out that slaves cannot defend themselves against free men, emphasizing their vulnerability.
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I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.