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Angelina Emily Grimké: When we talk of immediate emancipation, we speak that we do mean, and the slaveholders understand us, if thou dost not.

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When we talk of immediate emancipation, we speak that we do mean, and the slaveholders understand us, if thou dost not.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké clarifies that when she speaks of immediate emancipation, she means it clearly and unequivocally.

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