Angelina Grimke Abolition

According to document 4 it says “She wrote this book to show that slavery was evil and that the Fugitive Slave Law was unjust.” Also it says that “ Many northerners viewed slavery as wrong. It made abolitionists want to help slaves escape to the North and canada”. Even though the north viewed slavery as wrong they still had some states that had slaves. Since the abolitionists thought that slavery was wrong too they thought that it would be best for them to escape to the North. Rather than being in the South where some of them will eventually get killed. Author Harriet Beecher’s book made a huge impact on the

By the early 1800’s, sisters Angelina and Sarah Grimke had already made a name for themselves as anti-slavery abolitionist. Speaking in tents and at religious gatherings. They Used their Quaker faith to help instill an equal mindset. The sisters, who were educators, were also authors. Several of their publications were for the supplication of the rights of African Americans. Written in a pamphlet by Angelina entitled: “Appeal to the Christian Women of the South” she wrote:

(Hughes's grandfather) was a fierce abolitionist. She helped Hughes to see the cause of social

Women did not have a voice at all nor were they able to speak on important government matters. They were restricted solely to their activities within the domestic sphere, expected to be good house wives, mothers, and care only for the home and children. Standing up firmly for women, Angelia and Sarah Grimke held distinct positions in the antislavery movement because they were the daughters of a Southern Slaveowner. The ideals about women rights began with these two women, but it did not stop with them. Despite the debate about the place of women in the abolitionist movement, abolitionism did provide women with some sympathetic male allies like Fredrick Douglass, who took them serious and publicized their causes.

Whites often believed the myth that slaves did not care about their own children. Her parents were quoted about the selling of two children “a source of great anguish and continuing resentment by both parents.” Ever since her sisters were sold, Harriet lived with the fear that she would be sold and relocated, as well. When Sarah Bradford wrote Harriet Tubman’s autobiography, she recalled when Harriet described:

Grimké had seven main arguments that she wanted to convince other women that slavery was wrong and that slavery needed to be gone. “First, that slavery is contrary to the declaration of our independence. Second, that it is contrary to the first charter of human rights given to Adam,

Among many abolitionists of slavery in early America were former slaves, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs who lived to tell the stories of their quests for freedom during their time as slaves. Harriet Jacobs, known for her narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, was born into slavery like many African Americans at the time. Frederick Douglass who was also born into slavery was best known for his “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Through these narratives both Jacobs and Douglass each portray their own experiences of slavery in contrasting ways.

Growing up with Quaker beliefs Anthony and her family were against the ownership of slaves, they believed that and worked to end slavery and help them to be free, this was called the abolitionist movement. This

Sarah and Angelina Grimke were the first Southern women to become influential abolitionist, which spoke on the end of slavery; as well as social and political equality for freedmen and women as well. The Grimke sisters stretched the boundary of women’s public role, by giving speeches to audiences with men and women, and by speaking in front of a state legislature about African American rights. Sarah and Angelina broke many of the social and political boundaries subjected on women.

Angelina E. Grimke’s Letters to Catharine Beecher is a contrasting response to Beecher’s Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, which was

Therefore women such as Lucretia Mott, who went against society to deliberate in conventions, who went against the hierarchy of gender, just so she can free slaves from the excruciating power of unjust men, allowed herself to achieve the equality and freedom of African American women and slaves. Another women who worked towards abolishment of slavery was also Elizabeth Stanton, who went to great extents in promoting railroads for runaway slaves that consisted mainly of women, and there she was able to free the lives of many. These prominent women were similar during the Antebellum reform because of their similar views towards society's injustices, and their decision to take a stance in society which changed to evolvement of America. By comparison to common attributes women made towards slavery reform, they also stood in solidarity when it came to a woman's right towards education. Many women from all over the country united in the stand to reinforce the laws of education in which they should all be obliged to equal learning as men. On average women outside of their homes, worked in mills with low wages and harsh

Angelina Weld Grimké was born in Boston, Massachusetts February 27, 1880 to Archibald Henry Grimké and Sarah E. Stanley. As a result, Grimké was born into a rather “unusual and distinguished biracial family” (Zvonkin, para. 1). Her father was the son of a slave and her master, who also happened to be the brother of the two famous abolitionist Grimké sisters: Angelina and Sarah. Grimké’s mother, Sarah, was from a prominent, white middle class family; she left Grimké and her African American husband due to racial pressure from her white family and, as a result, Grimké was raised entirely by her father.

Slavery has always been an anomaly, although abolitionists such as Harriet Tubman did much to ameliorate, and later, abolish slavery. Harriet was a strong and courageous woman and a well-known conductor of the Underground Railroads, around the 1850s. Harriet Tubman personal experiences throughout her life have shaped her to become the stout-hearted woman who helped many slaves escape to freedom, by using the Underground Railroad—a network of secret routes.

Angelina Weld Grimké’s, Rachel, portrays an African American family’s experience and development over the course of several years during the segregation era. Act one begins in a domestic setting, introducing the main character, Rachel Loving. Rachel is eighteen, living with her mother, Mrs. Loving, and brother, Tom. Notably, the Loving household is presented as a cheerful and affectionate place, full of laughter and lightheartedness. In a like manner, Rachel emerges as warm and cheerful, yet overall naive; never once questioning the absence of her father and brother, who passed ten years earlier. Initially, Rachel is lively and passionate, bearing a deep infatuation for motherhood and constantly proclaiming her dream to raise a child. Nevertheless,

In “An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States”, Angelina Grimke immediately addresses all women as her “Beloved Sisters”, white or black. She establishes her audience right away and attempts to connect them through the powerful use of the sisterhood mentality. She begins to remind all women of their important duties in the world and then questions why women are stripped of political rights and duties solely because they are women, even though they are a crucial part of society. She goes on to explain slavery as a brutish crime “by which man is robbed of his inalienable right to liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the diadem of glory, and honor, with which he was crowned, and that sceptre of dominion which was placed in his hand when he was ushered upon the theater of creation.” (Grimke). Grimke uses this vivid explanation of slavery to connect the oppression of African-Americans to the oppression of women and how women cannot forget that it is their duty to help their fellow oppressed citizens, regardless of their skin color. She says that it is not only their moral duty but also their political duty to act as members of “The Great Human Family”. She then begins to specifically describe how slave women are