Slavery: Angelina Grimke And William Lloyd Garrison

Corey Hobensack Slavery Paper

In both documents, authors Angelina Grimke and William Lloyd Garrison, are both reformers with slavery. Garrison explains his anti slavery opinion in the newspaper The Liberator as Grimke explains hers in a speech. In garrison’s article, “To the Public,” he purposely toured to excite the minds of people by his series of discoveries on the subject of slavery. He was given fresh evidence of the fact from every place he visited that a greater revolution in public settlement was to be effected in the free states. He found particularly in New England, prejudice more stubborn, more active opposition, apathy more frozen, more relentless detraction, and contempt more bitter. In Grimke’s speech at Pennsylvania …show more content…
For some people who would get tours of the plantation, the slave owners wouldn’t show them the huts in which they burrow. Nor would they have the chance to witness the cruelty of slavery. In the end, the southerner visitors would go home with nothing but the positive experiences and praises among themselves of the generosity they received of visiting. The corruption of the southern slavery angered people like Angelina Grimke and others. The North was so reformed that excusing the holding of men as property was not worth the risk of reputation. In The Liberator, Garrison states the standard of emancipation has been unfurled and wants it to float around unhurt by desperate foes and time exploitations until the freeing of every bondman. He wants to see the trembling of northern apologists, southern oppressors, enemies of the persecuted blacks, and secret abettors. Garrison’s original Prospectus publication gathered a wide circulation. The relation of that publication and The Liberator, is he does not want to be arrayed as the political partisan of any man. He wishes to obtain assistance from all parties and religions. He quotes the “all men are equal” statement maintained in the Declaration of Independence and strongly abides it as well as the …show more content…
Grimke became animated with hope and assurance to stand up and lift her voice to the people. She wanted to let the people of Pennsylvania know about their omission towards the slave, their transgression, and what they can do to help overthrow the Southern oppression. At this point her speech is based of moral arguments, as she is shocked how nobody in Penn had deep concern towards Southern slavery. Her audience in this speech is directed towards the people of Pennsylvania to help raise concern. Grimke did her speech in Pennsylvania Hall which eventually gathered mobs of people who some threw rocks at windows to intrude in her speech. In her speech she brought up many good points and ideas that were persuasive to the people. During her speech she expressed how there are no neutral grounds based of the subject of slavery. Anybody that doesn’t agree or is not with them is against them. And to the people, who believe they are of neutral ground, the South looks upon you as an oppressor. Grimke brought up of the punishment of Judea and how God swept Egypt with destruction because of slavery. She argued to the people if there is any reason