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Historical Document Angelina Grimké Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall 1838 |
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Click here for the text of this historical document. Speaking as a southern woman who had seen firsthand the "demoralizing influence" of slavery and its "destructiveness to human happiness," Angelina Grimké Weld gave an inspiring speech at Pennsylvania Hall amidst a tumult of rocks thrown through windows and the shouting of an unruly mob.
"What is a mob?" she asked during the commotion. "What would the breaking of every window be? Any evidence that we are wrong, or that slavery is a good and wholesome institution? What if the mob should burst in upon us, break up our meeting and commit violence upon our persons -- would this be anything compared to what the slaves endure?"
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