Archibald Henry Grimké: “Thus did the old master class perform their task without changing materially their old social system.”

The South does not regard the Negro laborer then as undesirable but quite the contrary--only it wants to retain possession of it on its own terms, not on those advantageous to that labor.

He could not hold his peace; his message he was compelled to deliver in the ears of the nation whether its leaders would hear or forbear.

I am invited to occupy a broader field, and to engage in a higher enterprise; that field embraces the whole country--that enterprise is in behalf of the slave population.

This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.