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Angelina Emily Grimké: My heart beats, and my hand trembles, as I write the awful affirmative, Yes!

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My heart beats, and my hand trembles, as I write the awful affirmative, Yes!
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké expresses her emotional turmoil in affirming that fathers do sell their daughters into slavery.

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