Like others before them, the Grimke sisters attempted to vote in 1870 when Sarah was nearly 80. This was only another in a lifetime of daring and courageous acts. She and her sister Angelina were the first women to speak before the Massachusetts Legislature in 1838. She had taught herself, using her brother’s books, until her mother and father put a stop to it. Fortunately for history it was too late. She had already ignited the brilliant mind within herself. Even her father admitted she had the potential to become foremost among the legal minds of that era, HAD SHE NOT BEEN A WOMAN. She used her brains and her voice in both public speaking and in writing, at a time in this country when doing those things was an open challenge to the authority of a male dominated society, who did not want to consider that women had anything of consequence to say and SHOULD NOT BE HEARD!
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Saturday, July 3, 2010
ANGELINA EMILY GRIMKE
She and her sister Sarah were outspoken Quakers from Charleston, SC. Their father, a prominent judge, was strongly in favor of slavery and owned hundreds himself. Having observed the cruelty doled out to slaves at close hand, they became committed abolitionists.
Angelina gained notoriety in the early 1830’s when she sent a letter to William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator. When it was printed without her permission, she was criticized by the Quakers and given an ultimatum. She refused to recant and was contacted by the abolitionists. Both sisters chose their path and began a life of accomplished distinction.
In the link below she shows what a fine analytical mind she could employ in her argument. Using scripture herself to refute the justification of slavery, she argues against God’s ability to bless any such institution as slavery, and uses Jewish Law to cut down any arguments that were used to justify it. There is no doubt that both sisters had inherited their father’s great legal mind, much to his consternation.
http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abesaegat.html
Angelina gained notoriety in the early 1830’s when she sent a letter to William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator. When it was printed without her permission, she was criticized by the Quakers and given an ultimatum. She refused to recant and was contacted by the abolitionists. Both sisters chose their path and began a life of accomplished distinction.
In the link below she shows what a fine analytical mind she could employ in her argument. Using scripture herself to refute the justification of slavery, she argues against God’s ability to bless any such institution as slavery, and uses Jewish Law to cut down any arguments that were used to justify it. There is no doubt that both sisters had inherited their father’s great legal mind, much to his consternation.
http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abesaegat.html
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