Archibald Henry Grimké: “Of one thing we are sure: all Southern threats and rewards will be insufficient to deter us from pursuing the work of…”

During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.

For myself, I had rather rob any bank to an indefinite amount than kidnap a fellow-being, or hold him in bondage; the sin would be less injurious to society, and less sinful in the sight of God.

He saw that they were not essentially unlike other races--that there was nothing morally or intellectually peculiar about them, and that the evil or the good which they manifested was the common property of mankind in similar circumstances.

Under it we have the double moral standard and the double legal standard operating throughout that section with a vengeance.