Take those men, one by one, and ask them in their parlours, do you approve of slavery? ask them on Northern ground, where they will speak the truth, and I doubt not every man of them will tell you, no!
Grimké suggests that Northern politicians would privately oppose slavery if asked in a truthful setting.
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The fact is, the South is enraged, because we have exposed her horrible hypocrisy to the world.
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.
The laws greatly obstruct the manumission of slaves, even where the master is willing to enfranchise them.
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