Angelina Emily Grimké: “The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of…”

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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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Grimké asserts the power of Southern women to dismantle the institution of slavery.

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I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.

He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.

Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.

They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.

Angelina Emily Grimké: “The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.”