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If then He did not condemn Jewish servitude this does not prove that he would not have condemned such a monstrous system as that of American slavery, if that had existed among them.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké argues that Jesus's silence on slavery does not imply approval of American slavery, which is a more extreme form.
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