They prayed for peace and for that happiness which goes with freedom, and there swept over them for six dreadful years a crime-storm which filled their nights and days, the season of their planting and the season of their reaping with terror and destruction, and they just out of the house of bondage.
Grimké describes the overwhelming violence and terror experienced by African Americans during a six-year period.
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Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.
At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.
To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.
Our garb should be sack-cloth--our heads bowed in the dust--our supplications for the pardon and assistance of Heaven.