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Join Lynne Garvey-Hodge as she gives a first-person voice to Angelina Grimké, a Southern-born early 19th-century abolitionist who, with her eldest sister Sar...
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Jan 7, 2013 · Angelina Grimké, the outspoken daughter of a wealthy Charleston, South Carolina plantation family, believed that slavery was a sin and a stain on the nation.
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Although raised on a slave-owning plantation in South Carolina, Angelina Emily Grimké Weld grew up to become an ardent abolitionist writer and speaker, as well as a women’s rights activist. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were among the first women to speak in public against slavery, defying gender norms and risking violence in doing so.
February 3, 1895, Hyde Park, Massachusetts (aged 91) Notable Family Members: spouse Angelina Grimké. Theodore Dwight Weld (born November 23, 1803, Hampton, Connecticut, U.S.—died February 3, 1895, Hyde Park, Massachusetts) was an American antislavery crusader in the pre- Civil War period.
Sarah Grimké and Angelina Grimké Weld, sisters from a South Carolina slave-holding family, were active abolitionist public speakers and pioneer women’s rights advocates in a time when American women rarely occupied the public stage.
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Nov 1, 2017 · The 19th-century abolitionists and feminists Sarah (1792–1873) and Angelina Grimké (1805–1879) were the first female agents of the American Anti-Slavery Society, as well as pioneers of the American women’s rights movement.
