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Before she sailed, she told Abby Kelly Foster, she feared not " the wind nor the waves, but I know that no matter how I go, the spirit of prejudice will meet me.
" In fact, she met with acceptance in Britain.
" I have been received here as a sister by white women for the first time in my life ,” she wrote ; " I have received a sympathy I never was offered before.
" She was the first educated, cultivated black woman — described by one as " a lady every inch " — that the British had ever seen.
She spoke out against both slavery and racial discrimination, stressing the sexual exploitation of black women under slavery.
At Tuckerman Institute on January 21, 1859, Remond gave her first antislavery lecture on the free soil of Britain.
Without notes she eloquently spoke of the inhuman treatment of slaves in the United States.
Her stories of these atrocities shocked many of her listeners, bringing tears to the eyes of the British.
She played an important role in drawing the attention of British abolitionists to the problems endured by free Blacks as well throughout the United States.
In her short autobiography, written in 1861, she stressed that " prejudice against colour has always been the one thing, above all others, which has cast its gigantic shadow over my whole life.

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