1. Who wrote this document? Who was their intended audience?
2. What are some major problems and inconsistencies with pro-slavery arguments that Grimké points out on page 2?
3. What similarities do you see between Angelina Grimké’s arguments in this document and Sarah Grimké’s arguments in An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States? How much do you think the sisters’ ideas were influenced by each other?
4. For what purpose does Grimké list the six ways that people became servants under Hebrew law, and the rules that protected Hebrew servants (page 5-8)?
5. How does Grimké invoke the golden rule (treat others as you wish to be treated) to support her argument for immediate emancipation (pages 13 and 14)?
6. What are Grimké’s seven propositions, and what are the four things that her fellow southern Christian women can do to help end slavery (pages 16-18)?
7. For what purpose does Grimké describe the actions of heroic women in the Bible and in history who defied the laws of their land or people in power (pages 21-23)?
8. Why does Grimké claim that “prejudice against color, is the most powerful enemy we have to fight with at the north (page 30)”?
9. What evidence does Grimké provide in favor of immediate, rather than gradual, emancipation (page 35)?