Even the free states of the North are compelled to deliver unto his master the servant that is escaped from his master into them.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “Even the free states of the North are compelled to deliver unto his master the servant that is escaped from his master…”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké points out that even in free states, escaped slaves are still subject to being returned to their masters.
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What can I say more, my friends, to induce you to set your hands, and heads, and hearts, to this great work of justice and mercy.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
They are decidedly more prosperous than any of those in which the apprenticeship system was adopted, and England is now trying to abolish that system, so fully convinced is she that immediate Emancipation is the safest and the best plan.
And why not try it in the Southern States, if it never has occasioned rebellion; if not a drop of blood has ever been shed in consequence of it, though it has been so often tried, why should we suppose it would produce such disastrous…