Sarah (Moore) And Angelina (Emily) Grimke

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pamphlet entitled An Appeal to
the Christian Women of the South. This pamphlet urged southern women to persuade
their influential husbands to re-examine the morality of the slavery institution.
A similar plea was made towards the Southern Church institutions months later in
An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. Though praised by other
abolitionists in the free states, officials in South Carolina burned copies and
threatened imprisonment to the authors should they return to that state. During
this time the sisters released their own family slaves after they were
apportioned to them as part of the family estate.
Angelina also began the sister's speaking career in the private homes of
Philadelphia women. The sisters moved to New York in 1836 where they addressed
the larger audiences of Churches and public halls. With all their good efforts
the sisters were brought under fire from the General Association of
Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts and scalded by ...

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