Is it not because even you shrink back from the idea of associating with those who make their fortunes by trading in the bodies and souls of men, women, and children? whose daily work it is to break human hearts, by tearing wives from their husbands, and children from their parents?
Grimké critiques the moral implications of associating with those who profit from the suffering of enslaved individuals.
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