Their violent expressions of horror at such accounts being believed may deceive some, but they cannot deceive me, for I lived too long in the midst of slavery, not to know what slavery is.
Grimké reflects on her personal experience with slavery, asserting that it informs her understanding of its true nature.
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Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.
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