Angelina Emily Grimké: “Slaves can make no contracts and have no legal right to any property, real or personal.”

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

He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.

I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.

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.