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Sarah Grimke: The Inequality Of Men And Women

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Biography 1: Sarah Grimke was a white woman who lived in South Carolina from 1792-1873. She came from a family that was wealthy and slave owners. She was educated privately and was expected to play a high class woman in the Charleston society. After her father's death she moved to philadelphia and ended up becoming a Quaker. Sarah Grimke was the first woman to speak out against slavery and the equality of men and women. Due to her experience of seeing the horrible situations that the slaves experienced made Sarah Gimke favore the eradication of slavery and thus become a very strong feminist. She was one of the first women to speak up/out against slavery and how cruel it was. Sarah Gimke was also one of the first women to bring attention to the inequality of men and women and how that should be reassessed. Biography 2: …show more content…

She grew up in Massachusetts and was very well educated by her schoolteacher. Margaret Fuller was part of the Transcendentalist circle. An article written by her in 1843 called, "The Great Lawsuit: Man Versus Men: Woman Versus Women" was featured. She furthered her feelings towards the inequality towards men and women through Woman in the Nineteenth Century. This talks about controversial topics such as prostitution and slavery, marriage, employment, and reform. Growing up as a women in the 1800s, made Margaret want to speak out against the inequality that all women faced and to spread the message of fighting for what is

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Grimke believes that slaves are not property and they should be treated with the utmost respect and manhood as a white man is treated; a slave cannot possibly be happy or even content while "his manhood is destroyed" by the white man that finds him useful for only a hefty profit of goods (Grimke 1838). Furthermore, Grimke, while informing the hall of the demoralizing actions of slavery, claims that women need to have an involvement in politics. In the 1830s, women were often portrayed with the image of being in charge of family matters and household chores. Women, mostly mothers, were seen as proper members of the family and sympathetic individuals. Grimke speaks to the crowd of women with no hope in uniting the listeners in the cause or proving her message to the audience, but to be the inspiration for

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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.

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