Read Part One HERE
In this post I continue to focus on a woman named Sarah Moore Grimke. She lived from 1792 -1873.
In 1829 Sarah was joined by her sister Angelina in Philadelphia, and they both became active members in the Society of Friends. At some point Sarah began working towards becoming a member of the Quaker clergy, but was continually discouraged by male members of the Philadelphia Society of Friends. Other women became Quaker ministers, like Lucretia Mott, but for whatever reason, Sarah was discouraged from doing so. She finally gave up when one church elder rudely interrupted one of her prayer meetings.
She and her sister Angelina then moved to Providence, Rhode Island, to be with a more liberal group of Quakers. Sarah began to write anti-slavery pamphlets and books such as "An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States" as well as "An Address to Free Coloured Americans."
In 1836 Sarah as well as Angelina were invited to speak throughout the Northeast when they addressed Ant-Slavery Conventions in New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts and met all the famous abolitionists of the day, including Theodore Weld.
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