“There has not been a contribution to the anti-slavery movement more impressive or tireless than that of the Grimké sisters.” “Hear, hear,” said dear Mrs. Whittier, but I saw her son lower his eyes, and I knew then why they had come. “We commend you for it,” Theodore went on. “And yet by encouraging men to join your audiences, you’ve mired us in a controversy that has taken the attention away from abolition. We’ve come, hoping to convince you—” Nina interrupted him. “Hoping to convince us to behave like good lapdogs and wait content beneath the table for whatever crumbs you toss to us? Is that
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