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What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it

Angelina Grimke

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Angelina Grimke
Age: 74 †
Born: 1805
Born: February 20
Died: 1879
Died: October 26
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Angelina Emily Grimké Weld
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Angelina Emily Grimke Weld
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So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.
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