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Angelina Emily Grimké: “Never was the heart of man so expanded; never were its generous sympathies so generally and so perseveringly excited.”

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Never was the heart of man so expanded; never were its generous sympathies so generally and so perseveringly excited.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké describes the emotional awakening and compassion that the abolitionist movement has inspired in people.

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