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Teach your servants then to read &c, and encourage them to believe it is their duty to learn, if it were only that they might read the Bible.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgTeach your servants then to read &c, and encourage them to believe it is their duty to learn, if it were only that they might read the Bible.
Grimké encourages women to teach their servants to read, emphasizing the importance of biblical literacy.
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Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.