biography
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Grimké, Angelina Emily
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pronunciation:
[grimkay]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1805–79)
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| biography:
| Abolitionist and women's rights advocate, born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. The sister of Sarah Grimké and the daughter of a slave-owning judge, she was educated at home by tutors. She came to dislike the institution and practice of slavery, and in 1829 followed her older sister Sarah to Philadelphia. There she adopted the Quaker religion and turned to teaching, but she soon devoted herself to the abolition of slavery and to promoting the rights of women. In 1836 her Appeal to the Christian Women of the South published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, brought the name Grimké to the fore, and she was warned not to return to the South. Shee and Sarah then moved to New York City (1836). She soon became a noted speaker against slavery, but controversial even in the North for speaking before ‘mixed’ audiences of men and women, and soon she was drawn into the related struggle for women's rights in general. In 1838 she married the abolitionist Theodore Weld and thereafter concentrated on circulating anti-slavery petitions and publishing anti-slavery documents. In 1840 the Welds moved to Belleville, NJ, where they ran a school (1848–62). In 1863 they moved to Massachusetts, where Angelina took up teaching (1864–7). Angelina suffered a stroke after Sarah's death in 1873. |
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