Angelina Emily Grimké: “How long the North will thus shake hands with the South in sin, I know…”

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How long the North will thus shake hands with the South in sin, I know not.

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Angelina Emily Grimké

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She expresses concern about the North's complicity in the sin of slavery alongside the South.

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Send us facts--send us kind remonstrance and manly reasoning.

The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.

What more do we need to show us the bloody hands and iron heart of Slavery?

How long she will stand by like the persecutor Saul, consenting unto the death of Stephen, and keeping the raiment of them that slew him.

Angelina Emily Grimké: “How long the North will thus shake hands with the South in sin, I know not.”