It is as unquestionably the province of the North to labor in this cause, as it is the duty of the church to convert the world.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “It is as unquestionably the province of the North to labor in this cause, as it is the duty of the church to convert the…”
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Grimké emphasizes the responsibility of the North and the church to actively work against slavery.
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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.
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.
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.