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Angelina Emily Grimké: I trust the cause of human rights is onward--weekly, I receive two copies of the Emancipator, which I send out as…

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I trust the cause of human rights is onward--weekly, I receive two copies of the Emancipator, which I send out as battering rams, to beat down the citadel of oppression.’ In a letter to James G.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké expresses her commitment to the cause of human rights and the abolition of slavery, using the metaphor of sending out publications as weapons against oppression.

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