Angelina Grimke
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Angelina Grimke
Angelina Emily Grimké Weldwas an American political activist, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. While she was raised a Southerner, she spent her entire adult life living in the North. The time of her greatest fame was between 1836, when a letter she sent to William Lloyd Garrison was published in his anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, and May 1838, when she gave a courageous and brilliant speech to abolitionists gathered in Philadelphia, with a hostile...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth20 February 1805
CityCharleston, SC
CountryUnited States of America
Angelina Grimke quotes about
We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.