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Sarah Grimké
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American abolitionist (1792–1873)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- American Defiance
- Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States (1836)
- Sarah Stanley Grimke Collected Works
- On Slavery and Abolitionism
- Letters on the equality of the sexes, and other essays
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Key facts
- Born
- November 26, 1792, Charleston, South Carolina
- Died
- December 23, 1873 (1873-12-23) (aged 81), Hyde Park, Massachusetts
- Occupation
- Abolitionist, writer, feminist
- Relatives
- John Faucheraud Grimké (father), Thomas Smith Grimké (brother), Angelina Grimké (sister)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- Grimké sisters
- Given name
- Sarah
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Charleston
- Place of death
- Hyde Park
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- judge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Sarah Moore Grimke.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sarah Moore Grimké
- date of death
- 1873-12-23
- date of birth
- 1792-11-26
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
- partner in business or sport
- Angelina Grimké
- P8168
- Actiosaurus
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Encyclopedic overview
Sarah Moore Grimké (November 26, 1792 – December 23, 1873) was an American abolitionist and feminist, widely held to be the mother of the women's suffrage movement. Born and reared in South Carolina to a prominent and wealthy planter family, she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1820s and became a Quaker, as did her younger sister Angelina. The sisters began to speak on the abolitionist lecture circuit, joining a tradition of women who had been speaking in public on political issues since colonial days, including Susanna Wright, Hannah Griffitts, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Anna Dickinson. They recounted their knowledge of slavery firsthand, urged abolition, and also became activists for women's rights.
Early life
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