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Was Charleston ready to receive Abolition pamphlets then?
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké asks if Charleston was ready to accept abolition pamphlets, highlighting the resistance to anti-slavery messages.
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My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.
The fact is, we need no excuse for not going to the South, so long as the North is as deeply involved in the guilt of slavery as she is, and as blind to her duty.
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Instead of being in love with the virtue exhibited by the individual, because it is virtue, he is delighted with the personal convenience he experiences from the exercise of that virtue.