Compare And Contrast Grimke And Angelina Grimke

Sarah Grimke and younger sister Angelina Grimke are both known as the abolitionist sisters. Their goals were to free the enslaved and end racial discrimination in the United States. Their crusade, “made them more radical than many of the reformers who advocated an end to slavery but who could not envision true social and political equality for the freedmen and women.” (www.gilderlehman.org). Also known as the Grimke sisters Sarah and Angelina published anti-slavery tracts, which were some of the most powerful tracts in the antebellum era. The Grimke sisters were the first women to testify for African American rights before the state legislature. (www.gilderlehman.org)
It is funny that the sisters became abolitionists because pbs.com states

Her letter encouraged Garrison to stand his ground even in the face of mob violence. This is some of what she said in her letter, “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….” (www.nps.com) Other Quakers were angry about the letter and Angelina Grimke chose not to acknowledge he letter. National park service on women’s rights states, “Angelina chose not to recall the letter despite the outrage it caused among fellow Quakers who believed she was a radical abolitionist. Despite the disapproval they faced from fellow Quakers and from a society that did not accept women as public speakers on such controversial topics as slavery, the Grimke sisters found themselves caught up in the antislavery movement.” Even though there was outrage from the letter Gilder Lehman states, “Despite the letter, New England crowds flocked to hear the Grimke’s throughout August, September, and October, and the sisters kept up a grueling pace, sometimes speaking at six meetings a

Sarah Grimke’s public speaking was not as strong as her sister Angelina Grimke, but she had great writing skills. She wrote a book called, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman. The book is about how women are treated in the united states at that time. Sarah Grimke and Theodore Weld, Angelina Grimke’s husband, also published a book together, it contained newspaper stories from the south, it was published in 1839 they named it, American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. They used the words of whites in the south detailing the way they spoke of escaped slaves, their slave auctions, and other things that showed how horrible things like that were accepted as a natural part of the plantation economy in the south.