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Jun 6, 2024 · Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. Grimké was born into a prominent biracial family of abolitionists and civil-rights activists; the noted abolitionists Angelina and Sarah Grimké were her great-aunts, and her father.
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3 days ago · Just as with other anti-slavery conventions, delegates were chosen and specially invited to attend. The topic of race was once again an issue among the abolitionists. Many, specifically Angelina Grimke, wanted to ensure that African American women were attending.
May 31, 2024 · As abolition cause escalates, lecturers like Sarah and Angelina Grimké promote women's concerns simultaneously with abolition. Sarah draws criticism for her 1837 Letters on the Equality of the Sexes. AASS splits in 1839 over issue of women's rights.
4 days ago · This historical fiction is based on the lives of the leading American abolitionist sisters, Sarah and Angelina (Nina) Grimké. Kidd successfully blends fact and fiction and breathes life into her characters, adding the fictional figure of Hetty, the slave given to Sarah on her 11th birthday.
2 days ago · Despite the disapproval, in 1838 Angelina Grimké spoke against slavery before the Massachusetts legislature, the first woman in the U.S. to speak before a legislative body. Other women began to give public speeches, especially in opposition to slavery and in support of women's rights.
Jun 6, 2024 · An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called Africans by Lydia Maria Child. Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust. Appeal to the Christian women of the South by A. E. Grimké. Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust.
Jun 20, 2024 · Later texts and traditions examined include medieval hymns, Thomas Aquinas, William Tyndale, John Calvin, Martin Luther, the seventeenth-century Dutch Martyrs’ Mirror, the Westminster Confession of Faith, eighteenth-century antislavery writings from Southern abolitionist Angelina Grimké, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Mormon ...
