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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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The laws greatly obstruct the manumission of slaves, even where the master is willing to enfranchise them.
The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation.
The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of the lowest ignorance.
Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.
If Prophets and Apostles, Martyrs, and Reformers had not been willing to suffer for the truth's sake, where would the world have been now?
Who labored assiduously to keep the sufferings of the slave continually before the British public?
The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.
Slavery must be attacked with the whole power of truth and the sword of the spirit.
Surely you believe that his aim is not shortened that he cannot save.
Thou thinkest I have not been ‘sufficiently informed in regard to the feelings and opinions of Christian females at the North’ on the subject of slavery; for that in fact they hold the same principles with Abolitionists, although they…
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.