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Southerners may deny the truth of these accounts, but why do they not prove them to be false?
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “Southerners may deny the truth of these accounts, but why do they not prove them to be false?”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké challenges the denial of slavery's realities by Southerners, urging them to provide evidence against the accounts of its horrors.
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