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Why more than the professors of religion who barter their fellow-professors to them for gold and silver?
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké challenges the integrity of religious individuals who profit from slavery, questioning their moral stance.
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The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation.
The fact is, we need no excuse for not going to the South, so long as the North is as deeply involved in the guilt of slavery as she is, and as blind to her duty.
Now the Bible is my ultimate appeal in all matters of faith and practice, and it is to this test I am anxious to bring the subject at issue between us.
No station or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.