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Angelina Emily Grimké: I have seen too much of slavery to be a gradualist.

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I have seen too much of slavery to be a gradualist.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké expresses her firm stance against gradual emancipation, based on her experiences with slavery.

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