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Angelina Emily Grimké: And as soon as we reform the recreant sons and daughters of the North,--as soon as we rectify public opinion at the…

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And as soon as we reform the recreant sons and daughters of the North,--as soon as we rectify public opinion at the North,--then I, for one, will promise to go down into the midst of slaveholders themselves, to promulgate our doctrines in the land of the slave.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké expresses her commitment to promoting abolitionist doctrines even in the South once the North has been reformed.

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