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Angelina Emily Grimké
1805–1879
A fearless early voice against slavery, she turned her firsthand experience of the slaveholding South into powerful speeches and writing. Alongside her sister Sarah, she helped push abolition and women's rights into the center of American public debate.
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An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
by Angelina Emily Grimké
About the author
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Angelina Emily Grimké grew up in a wealthy slaveholding family but came to reject slavery at an early age. She later joined the Quakers and became one of the few Southern-born women to take a leading public role in the abolitionist movement.
In the 1830s, she and her sister Sarah Grimké became widely known as lecturers and writers who argued passionately against slavery. Angelina's Appeal to the Christian Women of the South and her public speaking helped make her one of the best-known reformers of her time, even as critics attacked the sisters for speaking before mixed audiences of men and women.
She married fellow abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld in 1838, and the two continued reform work together. Remembered as part of the remarkable Grimké sisters, she stands out as a bold advocate for both abolition and women's rights at a time when women were rarely welcomed in public political life.