Archibald Henry Grimké: “Why does the Negro occupy this very anomalous position in his country?”

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.

Love was in their mouths and love was in their hearts.

O Freedom! how are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nursed; What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors of the New Day burst.

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.