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Angelina Emily Grimké: “Why, then, protest against our measures as unchristian, because they do not smooth the pillow of the poor sinner, and…”

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Why, then, protest against our measures as unchristian, because they do not smooth the pillow of the poor sinner, and lull his conscience into fatal security?
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké critiques the perception of abolitionist measures as unchristian for not providing comfort to sinners.

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