Sarah (Moore) And Angelina (Emily) Grimke
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Sarah (Moore) and Angelina (Emily) Grimke
Sarah is the eldest of the Grimke sisters, born in Charleston South
Carolina in November of 1792. Angelina, the youngest, was born in Massachusetts
in February of 1805. The Grimke family consisted of the sisters, an aristocratic,
slave owning father, Judge ....
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.... Anti-Slavery movement.
In 1835 Angelina wrote a letter of support to Abolitionist leader
William Lloyd Garrison who published it in his newspaper The Liberator. The
following year, 1836, she composed a thirty page pamphlet entitled An Appeal to
the Christian Women of the South. This pamphlet urged southern women to persuade
their influential husbands to re-examine the morality of the slavery institution.
A similar plea was made towards the Southern Church institutions months later in
An Epi ....
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