What kind of religion did the North prepare them to preach?
Angelina Emily Grimké
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Angelina Emily Grimké Weld was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. At one point she was the best known, or "most notorious," woman in the country. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were considered the only notable examples of white Southern women abolitionists. The sisters lived together as adults, while Angelina was the wife of abolitionist leader Theodore Dwight Weld.
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What kind of religion did northern men come down and preach to us?
A slaveholding religion--and multitudes of them became slaveholders.
Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.
So far from it, that I have invariably heard those who understood the principles of the Anti-Slavery Society best, deny that it was a duty to go to the South, not because they would be killed, but because the North was guilty, and…
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.
The fact is, the South is enraged, because we have exposed her horrible hypocrisy to the world.
What dost thou mean by saying, her rights are the gifts of honor, rectitude and love?
My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.
She was created, like him, in the image of God, and crowned with glory and honor; created only a little lower than the angels,--not, as is almost universally assumed, a little lower than man; on her brow, as well as on his, was placed the…
Now the Bible is my ultimate appeal in all matters of faith and practice, and it is to this test I am anxious to bring the subject at issue between us.
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.