19. From Letters to Catherine E. Beecher | Individualism: A Reader
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Date: 2015-06-30

Letters to Catherine E. Beecher, in Reply to An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism (Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838)

Angelina Grimke (1805-79), like her sister Sarah Grimke, was a prominent abolitionist and an early crusader for women's rights. This excerpt shows the crucial role that the individualist principle of self-ownership played in the antislavery movement.

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