The fathers of this Christian land often sell their daughters, not as Jewish parents did, to be the wives and daughters-in-law of the man who buys them, but to be the abject slaves of petty tyrants and irresponsible masters.
Grimké contrasts the selling of daughters in the South with Jewish customs, condemning the practice of selling into slavery.
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The fact is, we need no excuse for not going to the South, so long as the North is as deeply involved in the guilt of slavery as she is, and as blind to her duty.
Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.
What kind of religion did northern men come down and preach to us?
The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of the lowest ignorance.