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Angelina Emily Grimké: “Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.”

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Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké points out the inconsistency in the South's stance on interference with slavery over time.

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