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Slaveholding is the perpetrating of acts, all of the same kind, in a series, the first of which is technically called man-stealing.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “Slaveholding is the perpetrating of acts, all of the same kind, in a series, the first of which is technically called…”
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She defines slaveholding as a series of acts that perpetuate the crime of man-stealing.
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