Above all, try to persuade your husband, father, brothers and sons, that slavery is a crime against God and man, and that it is a great sin to keep human beings in such abject ignorance; to deny them the privilege of learning to read and write.
Grimké calls on women to persuade their male relatives that slavery is a moral crime and to support education for enslaved individuals.
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