Feminism In The 1800s

Angelina and Sarah Grimke were two very unique abolitionist leader because they were from the south. However, just because they were in the south didn’t mean they didn’t want change. The Grimke sisters fought for the reform movement to gain black rights and abolish slavery. To achieve and help reach their goals the sister attended the anti-slavery convention in New York. Also to help end slavery William Lloyd Garrison published Angelina Grimke’s letters to him about the experience she had while working with the

Sarah and Angelina Grimké were two women that were very active in the abolition movement during the 1830’s. The Grimké sisters grew up with the wealthy class in Charleston, South Carolina, their father was the chief justice of the state supreme court. Even though they grew up with the Southern gentry the sisters were extremely independent and festered a hatred. In the 1820’s the sisters moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and joined the Quakers’ Society of Friends. During the infancy of the abolitionist movement in the 1830’s, the Grimké sisters went on speaking tours denouncing the practice of slavery. They described themselves to fellow abolitionist as white southerners in exile from slavery (pg. 281). While the abolitionist movement

Sarah E. Goode was born into slavery by her mom and dad. Her father ,Oliver Jacobs, was a carpenter. Her mother was

1. Sarah and Angelina Grimke grew up in South Carolina on a slave plantation, and as they got older rejected the southern lifestyle and moved up north to advocate for the abolitionist movement and women’s rights.

During the early 1800's women were stuck in the Cult of Domesticity. Women had been issued roles as the moral keepers for societies as well as the nonworking house-wives for families. Also, women were considered unequal to their male companions legally and socially. However, women’s efforts during the 1800’s were effective in challenging traditional intellectual, social, economical, and political attitudes about a women’s place in society.

advocate of slavery and the submission of women. Sarah loved learning and studied with her older brother, Thomas Grimke, who attended Yale Law School. She hoped to follow into her fathers and brothers footsteps and go on to college and practice law. However, due to the restriction placed on women's education at the time she couldn’t. Having always lived a comfortable and luxurious life in the early

Sarah was born when the Emancipation Proclamation was recently issued, so she did not get a taste of slavery. Although she didn’t go through slavery, her parents Owen Breedlove, and Minerva Breedlove, worked as sharecroppers, which meant they didn't have a good stable job and had a hard time paying for food, and other necessities for six children. Shortly after being born, both her parents died when she was only five. As a result, she would move to Vicksburg, Mississippi with her sister, Louvenia, younger brother, Solomon. By the age of seven, Sarah was toiling in cotton fields at her sister’s house.

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

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,

In 1819, Sarah and her father traveled to Philadelphia together to seek medical treatment due to her father's illness. While there, they stayed in a Quaker boarding house. The Quakers, also known as The Society of Friends, who resided in this house and helped Sarah tend to her dying father (National Park Service). Mr. Grimke died while in Pennsylvania, leaving Sarah to live alone with the Quakers. She grew fond of these people, the way that they lived, and their views on religion. On her ship back to Charleston, she befriended a Quaker named Israel Morris, who gave her books to read and learn more about the group. When Sarah returned home, the condition of the slaves disgusted her even more than ever. She spent most of her time learning all that she could about the Quakers, and their strong opposition to slavery (Blundell). Not long after she returned home, Sarah decided to relocate back to Philadelphia and live with the Morris family. In May of 1823, Sarah Grimke became a full member of the Society of Friends (Blundell). Angelina stayed behind in Charleston for a while longer, trying to make an impact on her southern peers and speak out against

John Grimke was one of Charleston’s leading judges. Angelina was an eligible woman who could have been handed everything she needed, such as the presence of slaves that were trained to respond to her wishes. Like her older sister Sarah, Angelina chose to give up the easy life that could have been handed to her. Instead she left the South and devoted her life to racial and gender equality.

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.

Minrose Gwin‘s book, Black and White Women of the Old South, argues that history has problems with objectiveness. Her book brings to life interesting interpretations on the view of the women of the old south and chattel slavery in historical American fiction and autobiography. Gwin’s main arguments discussed how the white women of the south in no way wanted to display any kind of compassion for a fellow woman of African descent. Gwin described the "sisterhood" between black and white women as a "violent connection"(pg 4). Not only that, Gwin’s book discusses the idea that for most of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, a black woman usually got subjected to displacement of sexual and mental

Sarah Grimke is the middle child in the wealthy, slave holding, Grimke family, who begins to feel out of place throughout the course of her life due to her moral convictions and progressive mentality. Such was not looked highly upon for women in the 1800’s, leading to objectionable

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