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Though I made every effort to turn my mind away from the subject, my conscience in spite of me began to awake, and to be troubled.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “Though I made every effort to turn my mind away from the subject, my conscience in spite of me began to awake, and to be…”
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Grimké reflects on her internal struggle with the moral implications of slavery.
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Who labored assiduously to keep the sufferings of the slave continually before the British public?
The hopes of the world depend, under God, upon the success of your cause.
Slavery must be attacked with the whole power of truth and the sword of the spirit.
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.