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Depend upon it, these agitations have put the slaveholders to very serious thinking.’ These, then, are the effects which Abolitionism is producing on some at the South.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké discusses the serious reflections that abolitionist movements have prompted among slaveholders in the South.
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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.
I have become a convert to political, and I trust, also, to Christian Freedom.
I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow beings in bondage, regarding them as property, than to the holding of a mule or an ox.
Send us facts--send us kind remonstrance and manly reasoning.