Well, I am willing to admit that you who have lived in freedom would find slavery even more oppressive than the poor slave does, but then you may try this question in another form--Am I willing to reduce my little child to slavery?
Grimké questions the morality of reducing one's own child to slavery, provoking thought among her audience.
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