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Angelina Emily Grimké: “Pray, then, whose mouths are slaveholders so fiercely striving to seal in silence?”

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Pray, then, whose mouths are slaveholders so fiercely striving to seal in silence?
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké questions the motivations behind the South's efforts to silence abolitionists.

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