Instead of withdrawing from the public stage, Angelina and Sarah went on to achieve more notoriety, in 1838, Angelina testified at a Committee of the Legislature of the State of Massachusetts, becoming the first American woman to testify in a legislative meeting. Later in 1838, at the age of 33, Angelina married abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, and they moved with Sarah to Fort Lee, New Jersey. Although both Angelina and Sarah wanted to continue giving speeches and attending meetings, the pressures of running a household, raising three children, poverty and health issues (Angelina had suffered a terrible breakdown after her third child), caused them retreat from public issues. They still continue to write and support the antislavery and women’s …show more content…
In 1854, Theodore Weld started the Eagleswood School where both the Grimké sisters taught and were administrators. The school went on, until it failed two years after its conception. In 1863, the family moved back to Boston to continue teaching. In 1868, Angelina and Sarah discovered that their brother, Henry had fathered children with his personal slave, Nancy Weston. He had three children, Archibald, John and Francis James Grimké, who he acknowledge as all of his children. When the sisters had found out about these men, they took them in and made arrangements for them to live in their home in Hyde Park. Archibald had went on to graduate from Harvard Law School and became the first black editor of the Hub which was a popular post-Civil War magazine for black leaders. Francis James Grimké graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and became a well-known minister. In order to raise money to get the boys’ through college Sarah wrote a novel, on an interracial couple which was never published because the subject matter was seen as too racy for the time. Sarah went on to circulate a petition for woman’s suffrage. (Nies,