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Angelina Emily Grimké: “They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of…”

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They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké clarifies that violence was caused by attempts to re-enslave freed individuals, not by emancipation itself.

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