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Where, oh where, in its pages, are the outpourings of a soul overwhelmed with a sense of the heinous crimes of our nation, and the necessity of immediate repentance?
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Editor's note · Context
Grimké questions the absence of moral outrage in Beecher's writing about slavery.
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