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Discountenance all cruelty to them, all starvation, all corporal chastisement; these may brutalize and break their spirits, but will never bend them to willing, cheerful obedience.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké condemns cruel treatment of enslaved individuals, arguing that such actions do not lead to true obedience but rather to suffering.
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