As a southerner, I repeat my solemn conviction, from my own experience, and from all I can learn from historical facts, and the reports of the Gradual Emancipation Societies of this country, and the scope of the debates which took place in the Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland Legislatures, that it never was forward.
Grimké reflects on her conviction that the South was never ready for emancipation, based on historical evidence and legislative debates.
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