Sure I am that she is not to be, as she has been, ‘a mere second-hand agent’ in the regeneration of a fallen world, but the acknowledged equal and co-worker with man in this glorious work.
Grimké envisions women as equal partners in the moral regeneration of society.
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The fact is, we need no excuse for not going to the South, so long as the North is as deeply involved in the guilt of slavery as she is, and as blind to her duty.
Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.
The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation.
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