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Grimké,
Sarah (Moore) and Angelina (Emily) (respectively b. Nov. 26, 1792, Charleston,
S.C., U.S.--d. Dec. 23, 1873, Hyde Park, Mass.; b. Feb. 20, 1805, Charleston--d.
Oct. 26, 1879, Hyde Park), American antislavery crusaders and women's rights
advocates.
Despite the fact that their father was
an aristocratic slaveholding judge in the Deep South, both girls developed an
early dislike of slavery. Their independent thinking was strengthened in their
20s when they joined the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Philadelphia, and they
both subsequently moved to the North and became active in the anti-slavery
movement. In 1835 Angelina wrote a letter of approval to Abolitionist
leader
William Lloyd Garrison, who published it in his newspaper, The
Liberator. The following year she composed an impassioned
pamphlet, An Appeal to the Christian Women
of the South, in which she urged her Southern sisters to use moral suasion
to help overthrow the oppressive institution. A few months later Sarah made a
similar plea in An Epistle to the Clergy
of the Southern States. These eloquent appeals were welcomed by antislavery
agitators in the free states, but South Carolina officials burned copies of them
and threatened the authors with imprisonment should they ever return home. At
the same time, the sisters attested their sincerity by freeing the slaves whom
they had persuaded their mother to apportion to them as their part of the family
estate.
The Grimkés' speaking career
began when Angelina appeared before small groups of Philadelphia women in
private homes. In 1836 the sisters moved to New York, where they addressed
larger gatherings in churches and public halls. Their talks in New England
before mixed audiences prompted a pastoral letter from the General Association
of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts castigating women preachers and
reformers. As a result of such opposition, the sisters became pioneers in the
women's rights movement and were largely responsible for linking it to the
antislavery crusade. (see also women's liberation
movement)
In 1838 Angelina married the noted
Abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld. Ill health
forced her to give up public speaking shortly afterward, and Sarah followed her
into retirement. The sisters helped Weld conduct liberal schools in New Jersey,
following which they moved to Massachusetts and continued to support
Abolitionism and women's rights.
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