The Anti-Slavery Cause in America and Its Martyrs

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ANGELINA AND SARAH GRIMKE. ? RESCUE OF TWO KIDNAPPED WOMEN.?MASSACHUSETTS SOIL DECLARED FREE. CONVENTION OF ANTI-SLAVERY WOMEN. BURNING OF PENNSYLVANIA HALL BY THE MOB.?MARTYRDOM OF LOVEJOY. About this time Edward Everett, then governor of Massachusetts, had given advice that any abolitionist...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ANGELINA AND SARAH GRIMKE. ? RESCUE OF TWO KIDNAPPED WOMEN.?MASSACHUSETTS SOIL DECLARED FREE. CONVENTION OF ANTI-SLAVERY WOMEN. BURNING OF PENNSYLVANIA HALL BY THE MOB.?MARTYRDOM OF LOVEJOY. About this time Edward Everett, then governor of Massachusetts, had given advice that any abolitionist demanded by the South should be delivered up to Southern law, which was well known to mean delivered up to certain death, and a price was actually set on the heads of a few distinguished abolitionists, by the legislatures of some of the Southern States, and they walked on their daily line of duty not knowing but that the night might witness their dwellings in names, their homes invaded, and themselves hurried off to Southern mercy. We have alluded to the position which women were called on to maintain in this great struggle for the freedom of millions of their brethren and sisters held in bondage. We must now briefly allude to two .sisters who were eminent in the moral warfare of that day. Angelina E. and Sarah Grimke' were Quaker ladies of South Carolina, sisters of the Hon. Thos. S. Grimke', a slaveholder, yet a gentleman who, in point of scholarship, was one of the greatest ornaments of the United States, and as such was universally honoured. At his death they became heirs to his estates. They strove, by every means in their power, to ameliorate the condition of the slaves they had inherited. In defiance of the laws, they attempted to educate them. But soon finding that there is no infusing into slavery the benefits of freedom, they surrendered their worldly interests at the call of conscience. They freed their slaves, enabled them to provide for themselves in a free state, and retired to Philadelphia to live on the remains of their former opulence. But...