Angelina Emily Grimké: “Now if every man has an inalienable right to personal liberty, it follows, that he cannot rightfully be reduced to…”

I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.

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…

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.