A family of slaves in Arkansas Territory, another in Tennessee, and a third, consisting of 88, in Virginia, were successively emancipated through the influence of one abolition periodical.
Grimké provides evidence of families being emancipated due to the influence of abolitionist literature.
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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.
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.
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.