Now it appears to me, so far from her station forbidding all interference to modify the character and conduct of her employer, that that station peculiarly qualifies her for the difficult and delicate task, because nursery maids often know secrets of oppression, which no other persons are fully acquainted with.
Grimké argues that a nursery maid's position uniquely equips her to address injustices she witnesses.
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Those who view with horror the traffic in slaves by ministers of the gospel, express more freely their pain at its indulgence, than I have ever known.
Slavery must be attacked with the whole power of truth and the sword of the spirit.
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.
A slaveholding religion--and multitudes of them became slaveholders.