Book/Printed Material Appeal to the Christian women of the South, African American Pamphlet Collection copy

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- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 2 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER. Vol. I. September 1836. No. 2. APPEAL TO THE CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF THE SOUTH, BY A. E. GRIMKÉ. “Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not within thyself that...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 3 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 2 Solomon says, “faithful are the wounds of a friend.” I do not believe the time has yet come when Christian women “will not endure sound doctrine,” even on the subject of...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 4 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 3 be reduced to involuntary bondage and held as a slave, however fair may be the claim of his master or mistress through wills and title-deeds. But after all, it may be...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 5 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 4 of all crimes the crucifixion of the Son of God. Did the fact of that event having been foretold, exculpate the Jews from sin in perpetrating it; No—for hear what the...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 6 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 5 was guarded from violence, injustice and wrong. I will first inform you how these servants became servants, for I think this a very important part of our subject. From consulting Horne,...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 7 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 6 petty tyrants and irresponsible masters. Is it not so, my friends? leave it to your own candor to corroborate my assertion. Southern slaves then have not become slaves in any of...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 8 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 7 said “his mercies are over all his works.” I will first speak of those which secured the rights of Hebrew servants. This code was headed thus: 1. Thou shalt not rule...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 9 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 8 when all servants were set at liberty. To protect servants from violence, it was ordained that if a master struck out the tooth or destroyed the eye of a servant, that...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 10 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 9 to marry her, he shall set her at liberty,’ or according to the Hebrew, ‘he shall let her be redeemed.’ ‘To sell her to another nation he shall have no power,...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 11 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 10 and no Jew was permitted to oppress him. He left his master just as our Northern servants leave us; we have no power to compel them to remain with us, and...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 12 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 11 laws of Moses; Not one. You may observe that I have carefully avoided using the term slavery when speaking of Jewish servitude; and simply for this reason, that no such thing...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 13 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 12 against any white, or free person, in a court of justice, however atrocious may have been the crimes they have seen him commit, if such testimony would be for the benefit...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 14 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 13 the right to set our feet upon his neck, because it was only all things which were originally put under the feet of man by the Almighty and Beneficent Father of...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 15 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 14 families? why not place your children in the way of being supported without your having the trouble to provide for them, or they for themselves? Do you not perceive that as...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 16 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 15 than those of servants. Is it so at the South, my friends? Is the daily bread of instruction provided for your slaves? are their minds enlightened, and they gradually prepared to...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 17 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 16 opinion, hence Isaiah says, “ When the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, (then) I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 18 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 17 3d. You can speak on this subject. 4th. You can act on this subject. I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 19 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 18 much as possible; never aggravate their faults, and thus add fuel to the fire of anger already kindled, in a master and mistress's bosom; remember their extreme ignorance, and consider them...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 20 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 19 in disobeying that monarch? “ Therefore (says the sacred text,) God dealt well with them, and made them houses” Ex. i. What was the conduct of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, when...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 21 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 20 if, in obeying it, I was not obliged to commit sin. If for instance, there was a law, which imposed imprisonment or a fine upon me if I manumitted a slave,...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 22 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 21 contrary to public opinion, and the authority of Ecclesiastical councils and conventions. Now all this vast amount of human suffering might have been saved. All these Prophets and Apostles, Martyrs, and...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 23 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 22 and addressed the pathetic language, “Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and your children.” Ah! who sent unto the Roman Governor when he was set down...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 24 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 23 But time would fail me, to tell of all those hundreds and thousands of women, who perished in the Low countries of Holland, when Alva's sword of vengeance was unsheathed against...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 25 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 24 wish my Southern sisters could read it; they would then understand that the women of the North have engaged in this work from a sense of religious duty, and that nothing...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 26 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 25 roar of the cannon came rolling onward, from the Texian country, where Protestant American Rebels are fighting with Mexican Republicans—for what? For the re-establishment of slavery; yes! of American slavery in...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 27 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 26 to the abject condition of slaves, of “chattels personal;” no longer to barter the image of God in human shambles for corruptible things such as silver and gold. The women of...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 28 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 27 string: “Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Slavery is an insurmountable barrier to the increase of knowledge in every community where it exists; slavery, then, must...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 29 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 28 stone;” and when they had taken away the stone where the dead was laid, and uncovered the body of Lazarus, then it was that “Jesus lifted up his eyes and said,...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 30 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 29 of reading their publications and attending their meetings, at which I heard addresses both from colored and white men; and it was not until I was fully convinced that their principles...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 31 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 30 the chief rulers in the days of our Saviour, though many believed on him, yet they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; John xii,...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 32 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 31 their apologists at the North. They know that when George Fox and William Edmundson were laboring in behalf of the negroes in the West Indies in 1671 that the very same...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 33 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 32 laugh,” when only twelve men formed the first Anti-Slavery Society in Boston in 1831. They have faced and refuted the calumnies of their enemies, and proved themselves to be emphatically peace...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 34 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 33 use in uncovering the loathsome body to popular sight, and in hopeless despair, wept in secret places over the sins of oppression. To such hidden mourners the formation of Anti-Slavery Societies...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 35 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 34 conflict against American citizens, and yet, where do their names stand on the page of History. Among the honorable, or the low? Thompson came here to war against the giant sin...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 36 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 35 bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered. “Let no man deceive you;” they are the predictions of that same “lying spirit” which spoke through the four hundred prophets of old, to...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
Image 37 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 36 to your sympathies as women, to your sense of duty as Christian women. I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead...
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836
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- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Grimké, Angelina Emily
- Date: 1836

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Title: Appeal to the Christian women of the South,
Contributor Names: Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879.; African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published: [New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836]
Subject Headings: - Slavery--United States
Notes: - Caption title.; - Following author's signature on p. 36: "Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society ..."; - Also available in digital form.
Medium: 36 p. 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location: E449 .A62357 no. 2; E185 .A254 container G, no. 117 Another copy. Formerly part of YA collection: YA 19043. Source unknown.
Library of Congress Control Number: 11007392
Online Format: online text; image; pdf
LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/11007392
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Grimké, Angelina Emily, and African American Pamphlet Collection. Appeal to the Christian women of the South. [New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/11007392/.

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Grimké, A. E. & African American Pamphlet Collection. (1836) Appeal to the Christian women of the South. [New York, American Anti-Slavery Society] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/11007392/.

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Grimké, Angelina Emily, and African American Pamphlet Collection. Appeal to the Christian women of the South. [New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/11007392/>.

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