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Look at the condition of our country--Church and State deeply involved in the enormous crime of slavery: ah! more--claiming the sacred volume, as our charter for the collar and chain.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké critiques the complicity of both church and state in the institution of slavery, highlighting its moral implications.
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My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.
I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow beings in bondage, regarding them as property, than to the holding of a mule or an ox.
What kind of religion did northern men come down and preach to us?
I shall never forget my feelings when the subject was first hit upon in the Evangelist.