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To make a slave is man-stealing--the ACT itself--to hold him such is man-stealing--the habit, the permanent state, made up of individual acts.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “To make a slave is man-stealing--the ACT itself--to hold him such is man-stealing--the habit, the permanent state, made…”
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Grimké defines both the act of making a slave and the act of holding a slave as forms of man-stealing.
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