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Seeing herself in the ancient role of a prophet overturning the power of priests, Angelina scathingly denounced the clerical origins of the power arrayed against her vindication of women’s rights. She saw through the strategy of silencing women, and addressed the issue of men’s power, their fear of losing power, and their desire to keep it. She also defended the “rain bow” of “moral reformations” emerging within the antislavery movement, and continued her colloquy with Weld on the topic of courtship and marriage.
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Sklar, K.K. (2000). Angelina Grimké. In: Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830–1870. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04527-0_29
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