Archibald Henry Grimké: “Things would undoubtedly be different for the colored people in those states had they though slight, some positive and…”

Our garb should be sack-cloth--our heads bowed in the dust--our supplications for the pardon and assistance of Heaven.

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…

To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.

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.