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Angelina Emily Grimké
1805–1879
A fearless voice against slavery and for women’s rights, she helped turn personal conviction into public action. Her speeches, letters, and partnership with fellow reformers made her one of the most memorable activists of the 19th century.
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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 slaveholding family but came to reject slavery and the limits placed on women. Along with her older sister Sarah, she became one of the best-known Southern-born critics of slavery and eventually joined the Quaker community.
In the 1830s, she emerged as a powerful abolitionist speaker and writer. She is especially remembered for speaking publicly to mixed audiences at a time when women were often condemned for doing so, and for addressing a Massachusetts legislative committee on slavery, a remarkable step for a woman in that era.
She later married abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, and the two continued reform work through writing and education. Today, she is remembered as part of the Grimké sisters’ extraordinary legacy in the movements for abolition and women’s rights.