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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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.
I shall never forget my feelings when the subject was first hit upon in the Evangelist.
So far from it, that I have invariably heard those who understood the principles of the Anti-Slavery Society best, deny that it was a duty to go to the South, not because they would be killed, but because the North was guilty, and…
My hope is, that men who denounce now, will at length reason.