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Angelina Emily Grimké: Now, no one who knows anything of the influence of Abolitionists over the colored people, can deny that it has been…

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Now, no one who knows anything of the influence of Abolitionists over the colored people, can deny that it has been peaceful and christian; had it not been so, they never would have seen those whom they had regarded as their best friends, mobbed and persecuted, without raising an arm in their defence.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké defends the peaceful influence of abolitionists on African Americans despite societal backlash.

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