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Although raised on a slave-owning plantation in South Carolina, Angelina Emily Grimké Weld grew up to become an ardent abolitionist writer and speaker, as well as a women’s rights activist. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were among the first women to speak in public against slavery, defying gender norms and risking violence in doing so. Beyond ending slavery, their mission—highly radical for the times—was to promote racial and gender equality.
Born on February 20, 1805, Weld was the last of 14 children of prominent jurist John Faucheraud Grimké and Mary Smith. The family owned a home in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, a plantation in the country, and numerous slaves. Believing women should be subordinate to men, John Grimké did not seek to educate his daughters, though his sons shared their lessons with their sisters.
Two facts—a childhood spent witnessing slavery’s cruelties and her own experiences with the limitations of gender—would shape Weld’s life and sense of mission. Early on, Weld and sister Sarah, thirteen years her senior, taught some slaves to read an
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Angelina Weld Grimké
American journalist and playwright
For her great-aunt, the abolitionist and suffragist, see Angelina Grimké Weld.
Angelina Weld Grimké | |
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| Born | (1880-02-27)February 27, 1880 Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Died | June 10, 1958(1958-06-10) (aged 78) New York City, USA |
| Education | Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, later Wellesley College |
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Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958) was an African-American journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet.
By ancestry, Grimké was three-quarters white — the child of a white mother and a half-white father — and considered a woman of color. She was one of the first African-American women to have a play publicly performed.[1]
Life and career
Angelina Weld Grimké was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1880 to a biracial family. Her father, Archibald Grimké, was a lawyer and of mixed race, son of a white slave owner and a mixed-race enslaved woman of color his father owned; he was of the "negro race" according to the society he grew up in. He was the
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When she took to the rostrum at the Massachusetts State House in 1838, Angelina Grimké became the first American woman to speak in front of a US legislative body. Her work as a lifelong activist, abolitionist, and women’s rights advocate defied gender standards of her time.
"I recognize no rights but human rights." -From a letter written to Catherine Beecher, 1837.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Angelina Emily Grimké became the youngest of John Fauchereaud and Polly Smith Grimké’s 14 children. Grimké grew up attending an Episcopal church with her family. The Grimkés not only owned enslaved laborers but used cruel forms of torture as punishment to exert authority over the enslaved people working in their home.
In defiance of the hypocritical Christian faith she saw her family display, Angelina adopted the Presbyterian faith at the age of 21. Her peaceful spirituality prompted Angelina to despise the horrific acts of violence against enslaved people. Grimké taught at Sabbath Schools until her abolitionist sentiments caused her to be removed from the Presbyterian church in 18
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