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Angelina Emily Grimké: “Slavery must be attacked with the whole power of truth and the sword of the spirit.”

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Slavery must be attacked with the whole power of truth and the sword of the spirit.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké asserts that the fight against slavery must be rooted in truth and spiritual conviction.

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Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.

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They are decidedly more prosperous than any of those in which the apprenticeship system was adopted, and England is now trying to abolish that system, so fully convinced is she that immediate Emancipation is the safest and the best plan.

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