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How long the North will thus shake hands with the South in sin, I know not.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “How long the North will thus shake hands with the South in sin, I know not.”
Editor's note · Context
She expresses concern about the North's complicity in the sin of slavery alongside the South.
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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.
My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.
What kind of religion did northern men come down and preach to us?
Instead of being in love with the virtue exhibited by the individual, because it is virtue, he is delighted with the personal convenience he experiences from the exercise of that virtue.