...Greenleaf Whittier, poet and abolitionist, asked whether their aggressiveness was really necessary: "Is it not forgetting the great and dreadful wrongs...crusade against some paltry grievance of our own? " Theodore Weld, their close coworker who was to become Angelina's husband, took their cause more seriously...

...slavery took moral and tactical precedence. John Greenleaf Whittier eluded the Grimke sisters in 1837: "Is it not forgetting the great and dreadful wrongs...a selfish crusade against some paltry grievance of [yourl own?"'ts The issue of tactical precedence emerged again in the aftermath of the Civil War and...

...let me ask, it is necessary for you to enter the lists as controversial writers in this question? ... Is it not forgetting the great and dreadful wrongs...the slave in a selfish crusade against some paltry grievances of our own?"37 the Letters on the Equality of the Sexes. "Woman, in every particular shares...

...Whittier — Bard of Freedom, as he would be remembered — wondered how the Grimke sisters could forget "the great and dreadful wrongs of the slave in a selfish crusade against some paltry grievance . . . some trifling oppression, political or social, of their own."1" Congregationalist condemnation,...

...sorrows and effort and prayer for their rescue." But the New England abolition society chastised them for forgetting "the great and dreadful wrongs of the slave...in a selfish crusade against some paltry grievance . . . some trifling oppression" of their own (Kandal 1988, 214). With the arrival of the Progressive...