Angelina Emily Grimké: “Why, the mouths of Abolitionists, to be sure--even our infant school…”

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Why, the mouths of Abolitionists, to be sure--even our infant school children know this.

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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké emphasizes that even children understand the South's attempts to silence abolitionists.

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Surely you believe that his aim is not shortened that he cannot save.

The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of the lowest ignorance.

I think the abolitionists have done, and are doing a great deal of good, by holding slavery up to the public gaze.

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Angelina Emily Grimké: “Why, the mouths of Abolitionists, to be sure--even our infant school children know this.”