Look, too, at the rapid spread of thorough temperance principles among them, and their moral reform and other laudable and useful associations; look at the rising character of this people, the new life and energy which have been infused into them.
Grimké points to the positive developments within the African American community as evidence of their progress.
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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.
What kind of religion did the North prepare them to preach?
The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of the lowest ignorance.
Now the Bible is my ultimate appeal in all matters of faith and practice, and it is to this test I am anxious to bring the subject at issue between us.