Angelina Emily Grimké: “Their own honest earnings and the legacies of friends belong in point of law to their masters.”

They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.

I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.

Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.

Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.