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Our immediate emancipation means, doing justice and loving mercy to-day--and this is what we call upon every slaveholder to do.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgOur immediate emancipation means, doing justice and loving mercy to-day--and this is what we call upon every slaveholder to do.
She argues for immediate emancipation, linking it to the moral imperatives of justice and mercy.
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