On the record
We have begun our work here, because pro-slavery men of the North are to the system of slavery just what temperate drinkers were to the vice of intemperance.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké compares Northern pro-slavery individuals to temperate drinkers who enable the vice of intemperance, highlighting their complicity in slavery.
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