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Angelina Emily Grimké: Slaveholding, then, is the constant or habitual perpetration of the act of man-stealing.

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Slaveholding, then, is the constant or habitual perpetration of the act of man-stealing.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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She reiterates that slaveholding is a habitual act of man-stealing.

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