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I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké outlines her efforts to support abolitionists and advocate for immediate emancipation of enslaved people.
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