sarah and angelina grimke anna jahns and gracie puckett
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SARAH AND ANGELINA GRIMKE
Anna Jahns and Gracie Puckett
THEIR QUEST
Sarah and Angelina were
abolitionists
After the Civil War, they
fought for women’s suffrage
SARAH MOORE GRIMKE
“Perhaps I am indebted
partially to this for my life-
long detestation of slavery, as
it brought me in close contact
with these unpaid toilers.”
ANGELINA EMILY GRIMKE
“If persecution is the means which
God has ordained for the
accomplishment of this great end,
emancipation, then…I feel as if I
could say, let it come; for it is my
deep, solemn deliberate conviction,
that this is a cause worth dying
for….”
METHODS
Sarah and her sister spoke
publicly about abolition to both
women and men.
(In this time period, it was unacceptable
to give speeches to both genders at the
same time)
WRITINGS: SARAH
1836- Epistle to the Clergymen of the South
1838- Letters on the Equality of the Sexes
and the Condition of Woman
1839- written with Theodore Weld-
American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a
Thousand Witnesses
WRITINGS: ANGELINA
1836-Appeal to the Christian
Women of the South
1837- Appeal to the Women
of the Nominally Free States
IMPRACTICAL?
Their method of public speaking
(to both sexes) may have been
impractical in the South, gained
them fame in the North among
the abolitionists.
Both illegally voted in 1870
SUCCESS/ EFFECTSThough their campaigning had no
major effect, slavery was soon abolished at the end of the civil war,
which was in their lifetime.Their public speaking about
women's suffrage encouraged a long line of females that followed in their footsteps. At the end of it all, women
got their voting rights.
WORKS CITED
"Young and Brave: Girls Changing History." Young
and Brave: Girls Changing History. N.p., n.d. Web.
26 Oct. 2013.
"Grimke Sisters." Grimke Sisters. N.p., n.d. Web.
26 Oct. 2013.
"Grimke Sisters." National Parks Service. 26 Oct.
2013.
<http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/grimke-
sisters.htm>.