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Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké argues that emancipation will not lead to violence, contrary to popular belief.
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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.
My hope is, that men who denounce now, will at length reason.
What kind of religion did northern men come down and preach to us?
Surely you believe that his aim is not shortened that he cannot save.