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Can it then be expected, if we give the American abolitionists the same advantage of that wide field of debate which Congress affords, that the same results will not follow?
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké argues that American abolitionists could achieve similar success as British abolitionists if given a platform for debate.
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A slaveholding religion--and multitudes of them became slaveholders.
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