SARAH AND ANGELINA GRIMKE

Anna Jahns and Gracie Puckett

THEIR QUEST

Sarah and Angelina were

abolitionists

After the Civil War, they

fought for women’s suffrage

SARAH MOORE GRIMKE

“Perhaps I am indebted

partially to this for my life-

long detestation of slavery, as

it brought me in close contact

with these unpaid toilers.”

ANGELINA EMILY GRIMKE

“If persecution is the means which

God has ordained for the

accomplishment of this great end,

emancipation, then…I feel as if I

could say, let it come; for it is my

deep, solemn deliberate conviction,

that this is a cause worth dying

for….”

METHODS

Sarah and her sister spoke

publicly about abolition to both

women and men.

(In this time period, it was unacceptable

to give speeches to both genders at the

same time)

WRITINGS: SARAH

1836- Epistle to the Clergymen of the South

1838- Letters on the Equality of the Sexes

and the Condition of Woman

1839- written with Theodore Weld-

American Slavery as It Is:  Testimony of a

Thousand Witnesses

WRITINGS: ANGELINA

1836-Appeal to the Christian

Women of the South

1837- Appeal to the Women

of the Nominally Free States

IMPRACTICAL?

Their method of public speaking

(to both sexes) may have been

impractical in the South, gained

them fame in the North among

the abolitionists.

Both illegally voted in 1870

SUCCESS/ EFFECTSThough their campaigning had no

major effect, slavery was soon abolished at the end of the civil war,

which was in their lifetime.Their public speaking about

women's suffrage encouraged a long line of females that followed in their footsteps. At the end of it all, women

got their voting rights.

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"Grimke Sisters." National Parks Service. 26 Oct.

2013.

<http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/grimke-

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