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All nations have been punished for oppression, and why should ours escape?
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAll nations have been punished for oppression, and why should ours escape?
Grimké questions why the United States should escape punishment for its oppression, drawing on historical precedent.
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Thy remarks on the subject of prejudice, show but too plainly how strongly thy own mind is imbued with it, and how little thy colonization principles have done to exterminate this feeling from thy own bosom.
The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.
What kind of religion did the North prepare them to preach?
The fact is, the South is enraged, because we have exposed her horrible hypocrisy to the world.