Angelina Grimké (1805 - 1879)
Wed Feb 20, 1805
Angelina Grimké Weld, born on this day in 1805, was an American abolitionist and women's rights advocate, notable for being, along with her sister Sarah, one of the few southern white women to join the abolitionist cause.
The Grimké sisters were raised in Charleston, South Carolina, however they spent their adult lives in the North. Angelina was a notable orator and writer of the suffragist and abolitionist movement in the 1830s, published in the magazine "The Liberator".
Here is an excerpt from a speech Angelina gave at an integrated abolitionist meeting at Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia, at which an angry crowd of protesters had gathered around:
"Those voices without ought to awaken and call out our warmest sympathies. Deluded beings! 'they know not what they do.' They know not that they are undermining their own rights and their own happiness, temporal and eternal. Do you ask, 'what has the North to do with slavery?' Hear it -- hear it. Those voices without tell us that the spirit of slavery is here, and has been roused to wrath by our abolition speeches and conventions".
The next day, Pennsylvania Hall was destroyed by arson. Angelina Grimké was its final speaker.
- Date: 1805-02-20
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