Archibald Henry Grimké: “What was attempted then and failed would certainly fail today if it were possible to repeat the self same experiment.”

Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.

To my apprehension, the subject of slavery involves interests of greater moment to our welfare as a republic, and demands a more prudent and minute investigation than any other which has come before the American people since the…

Sirs, I am not come to tell you that slavery is a curse, debasing in its effects, cruel in its operations, fatal in its continuance.

My friends were prodigal of pity, but of nothing else.