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Though I made every effort to turn my mind away from the subject, my conscience in spite of me began to awake, and to be troubled.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgThough I made every effort to turn my mind away from the subject, my conscience in spite of me began to awake, and to be troubled.
Grimké reflects on her internal struggle with the moral implications of slavery.
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I have endeavoured to set before you the exceeding sinfulness of slavery, and to point you to the example of those noble women who have been raised up in the church to effect great revolutions, and to suffer for the truth's sake.
He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.