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Angelina Emily Grimké
1805–1879
Born into a wealthy slaveholding family in South Carolina, she became one of the boldest white Southern voices against slavery and for women’s rights. Her speeches and writing helped push both movements into public view at a time when women were rarely welcomed on the platform.
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An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
by Angelina Emily Grimké
About the author
Raised in Charleston, Angelina Emily Grimké broke sharply with the world she was born into. Disturbed by slavery from a young age, she left the South, joined the Quakers in Philadelphia, and soon began speaking and writing against slavery alongside her sister Sarah Grimké.
She became widely known in the 1830s as an abolitionist lecturer and author. Her Appeal to the Christian Women of the South urged women to recognize the cruelty of slavery and take moral action, and the criticism she faced for speaking in public helped draw her more deeply into the cause of women’s rights as well.
In 1838 she married fellow abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, and the two later worked on antislavery writing and reform. Remembered as an orator, activist, and early advocate for women’s political equality, she remains an important figure in the linked histories of abolition and women’s rights in the United States.