And as soon as we reform the recreant sons and daughters of the North,--as soon as we rectify public opinion at the North,--then I, for one, will promise to go down into the midst of slaveholders themselves, to promulgate our doctrines in the land of the slave.
Grimké expresses her commitment to promoting abolitionist doctrines even in the South once the North has been reformed.
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