They labor day by day, and year by year, side by side, in the same field, if haply their daughters are permitted to remain on the same plantation with them, instead of being as they often are, separated from their parents and sold into distant states, never again to meet on earth.
Grimké describes the harsh realities faced by enslaved mothers and daughters who are often separated from each other.
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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.
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.