Seventh, that slavery is contrary to the example and precepts of our holy and merciful Redeemer, and of his apostles.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “Seventh, that slavery is contrary to the example and precepts of our holy and merciful Redeemer, and of his apostles.”
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Grimké asserts that slavery contradicts Christian teachings, emphasizing its moral implications.
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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 have endeavoured to set before you the exceeding sinfulness of slavery, and to point you to the example of those noble women who have been raised up in the church to effect great revolutions, and to suffer for the truth's sake.
They are decidedly more prosperous than any of those in which the apprenticeship system was adopted, and England is now trying to abolish that system, so fully convinced is she that immediate Emancipation is the safest and the best plan.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.