Such an act will be clear robbery, and if exposed, might, under the Divine direction, do the cause of Emancipation more good, than any thing that could happen, for, "He makes even the wrath of man to praise him, and the remainder of wrath he will restrain.
Grimké argues that exposing the crime of manstealing can further the cause of emancipation.
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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.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
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.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.