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Angelina Emily Grimké: “There is every encouragement for you to labor and pray, my friends, because the abolition of slavery as well as its…”

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There is every encouragement for you to labor and pray, my friends, because the abolition of slavery as well as its existence, has been the theme of prophecy.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké encourages her audience to labor and pray for the abolition of slavery, linking it to prophecy.

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