Sarah (Moore) And Angelina (Emily) Grimke

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Sarah (Moore) and Angelina (Emily) Grimke

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 John Faucherand and Mother, Mary Smith Grimke. Sarah
had the overwhelming desire to practice law, though due to her status as a women,
she was not admitted, or allowed to attend any Universities that were available
at the time. This was only the beginning to the discrimination and humiliation
she was to experience in her fight against sexism.
    Both Sarah and Angelina joined the Society of Friends (a.k.a. Quakers)
in Philadelphia in their early twenties. Their time there strengthened their
independent thinking skills. The sisters were unhappy with the Society of
Friends, due to the strict regulations they lived under. Soon afterward both
sisters moved to North Carolina to join the 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 husba

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