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The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgThe women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.
Grimké asserts the power of Southern women to dismantle the institution of slavery.
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