It was human for the American people to hate a class whom they had so deeply wronged, and altogether human for them to justify their atrocious treatment by blackening before the world the reputation of the said class.
Grimké critiques the American people's tendency to justify their mistreatment of Black individuals by tarnishing their reputation.
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It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.
Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?
With unerring moral instinct he had from the start placed his reliance "on nothing but the eternal principles of justice for the speedy overthrow of slavery.
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