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Grimké sisters
White American female advocates of the abolition of slavery and women's rights
The Grimké sisters, Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873) and Angelina Emily Grimké[1] (1805–1879), were the first nationally known white American female advocates of abolitionism and women's rights.[2][3] Both sisters were public speakers, writers, and educators.
The Grimké sisters were prominent figures in the abolition movement and were among the first American-born women to engage in a public speaking tour,[4][5] making the connection between the struggles for civil rights for African Americans and civil rights for women.
Sarah Grimké's pamphlet, The Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, has been called "one of the most prominent discussions of women's rights by an American woman."[6]
The sisters grew up in a slave-owning family in South Carolina and in their twenties became part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's
