Carolina Snaps
The Grimke Sisters
Season 4 Episode 11 | 52sVideo has Closed Captions
Sisters Angelina and Sarah Grimke emerged as prominent figures in the abolition movement.
Sisters Angelina and Sarah Grimke, born in South Carolina, emerged as prominent figures in the abolition movement during the 1800s. Their Quaker exposure in Philadelphia fueled their passion for gender equality and abolition. They began addressing public forums, including writing collaboratively on books about slavery.
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Carolina Snaps is a local public television program presented by SCETV
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Carolina Snaps
The Grimke Sisters
Season 4 Episode 11 | 52sVideo has Closed Captions
Sisters Angelina and Sarah Grimke, born in South Carolina, emerged as prominent figures in the abolition movement during the 1800s. Their Quaker exposure in Philadelphia fueled their passion for gender equality and abolition. They began addressing public forums, including writing collaboratively on books about slavery.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipThese two sisters were key factors in the abolition movement in South Carolina and were the first white female abolitionists to be recognized nationally.
Angelina and Sarah Grimke were raised in Charleston, South Carolina, to a slave owning planter family in the early 1800s.
In their twenties, the sisters were exposed to Quaker communities in Philadelphia, which were often firm believers in gender equality and abolition.
After their exposure, the Grimkes case started as a speak publicly in local forums like parlor rooms and such.
Through time, The sisters spread their activism from abolition conventions to even collaborating on books like Slavery As it is the testimony of a thousand witnesses with Angelina's husband, Theodore Dwight Weld.
Although they were publicly rebuked at the time for not being traditional women and believing in such controversial ideas, the sisters were acknowledged as some of, if not the first white female abolitionists.
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Carolina Snaps is a local public television program presented by SCETV
Support for this program is provided by The ETV Endowment of South Carolina.