Thy remarks on the subject of prejudice, show but too plainly how strongly thy own mind is imbued with it, and how little thy colonization principles have done to exterminate this feeling from thy own bosom.
Grimké critiques the colonizationist mindset and its failure to address personal prejudice.
Share
More from Angelina Emily Grimké
My hope is, that men who denounce now, will at length reason.
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.
What kind of religion did northern men come down and preach to us?
So far from thinking slavery a sin, or that I had no right to own the slaves inherited from my father, I thought no one could venture to dispute that right, any more than he could my right to his land or his stock.