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Angelina Emily Grimké: One instance has lately occurred within my acquaintance, of an heir to slave property--a young man of growing influence…

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One instance has lately occurred within my acquaintance, of an heir to slave property--a young man of growing influence, who was first awakened by reading a single number of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, sent to him by some unknown hand.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké shares a personal account of an individual influenced towards abolition by reading an anti-slavery publication.

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