Letter from Angelina Emily Grimké, Fort Lee, [N.J.], to Anne Warren Weston, 10 mo[nth] 14th [day] [1838]

Angelina Emily Grimké thanks Anne Warren Weston for her account of Abby Kelley at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention. Grimké "felt assured that she [Abby Kelley] had not rendered herself rediculous [sic]" and hopes she will feel it is her duty to speak for the slave and not find the labor of lecturing "too easy," but will persevere "with simple hearted trust of a little child." Grimké favors Boston over Philadelphia as the next meeting place for the women's anti-slavery convention. She discusses the Declaration of Sentiments adopted by the Peace Convention, which Anne W. Weston has signed. She is convinced that the fundamental principle of morality upon which the Jewish system was founded was the same as the Gospel system of guilt. Therefore, Grimké "could not sign the Declaration which solemnly asserts that Jesus Christ worked the penal code of the Old Testament & substituted for it the forgiveness of enemies." In regard to her domestic life, Grimké considers her household activities of supreme importance in proving "that public lecturing does not make a woman unfit for private duties."

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