Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Sisters of Abolitionism

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Sarah (Moore) and Angelina (Emily) Grimke

        Sarah is the eldest of the Grimke sisters, born in Charleston southeast 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 commit 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 generator 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. currently aft(prenominal)ward 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 print it in his newspaper The Liberator. The following year, 1836, she

composed a thirty rascal pamphlet entitled An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South.

This pamphlet urged southerly women to persuade their influential husbands to re-examine the

morality of the slavery institution. A identical plea was made towards the grey Church

institutions months later in An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. Though praised

by other abolitionists in the free states, officials in South Carolina burned copies and

threatened imprisonment to the authors should they return to that state. During this time the

sisters released their own family slaves after they were apportioned to them as part of the

family estate.

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