Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society - Presented October 13, 1841 #263240

How few, how trifling seem our most important efforts in the enumeration! Here are two and a half millions, held as slaves and sixteen millions of freemen, so debased in soul by finding apologies for the deed, that the demands of justice, the claims of generosity, the tears of mercy, the principles of re publicanism, and the teachings of Christianity.