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To guard most effectually against this dreadful crime of manstealing, God enacted this severe law.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “To guard most effectually against this dreadful crime of manstealing, God enacted this severe law.”
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Grimké emphasizes the moral responsibility to prevent the crime of slavery as dictated by divine law.
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He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.
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.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.