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Angelina Emily Grimké: Our light, and high professions, and the age in which we live, convict us not only of enormous oppression, but of the…

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Our light, and high professions, and the age in which we live, convict us not only of enormous oppression, but of the vilest hypocrisy.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké critiques the moral failures of her contemporaries regarding slavery and hypocrisy.

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