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Is this in accordance with ‘the known laws of mind,’ where principle is deeply rooted in the heart?
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “Is this in accordance with ‘the known laws of mind,’ where principle is deeply rooted in the heart?”
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Grimké challenges the idea that deeply rooted principles can coexist with the acceptance of slavery.
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My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.
The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of the lowest ignorance.
What kind of religion did the North prepare them to preach?
Thy remarks on the subject of prejudice, show but too plainly how strongly thy own mind is imbued with it, and how little thy colonization principles have done to exterminate this feeling from thy own bosom.