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The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation.”
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Grimké argues that laws actively prevent slaves from receiving religious education and support.
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Those who view with horror the traffic in slaves by ministers of the gospel, express more freely their pain at its indulgence, than I have ever known.
Slavery must be attacked with the whole power of truth and the sword of the spirit.
Thy remarks on the subject of prejudice, show but too plainly how strongly thy own mind is imbued with it, and how little thy colonization principles have done to exterminate this feeling from thy own bosom.
The hopes of the world depend, under God, upon the success of your cause.