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As to Colonization tracts, I know they have circulated at the South; but what of that, when Southerners believed that Colonization had no connection with the overthrow of Slavery?
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké critiques the belief that colonization efforts are separate from the abolition of slavery.
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