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Sarah Grimke
Charleston (South Carolina), United States
Archival Overview
Southern-born abolitionist and women's rights pioneer who rejected her slaveholding family's wealth to campaign across the North, author of the groundbreaking 1838 feminist work 'Letters on the Equality of the Sexes'.
Biographical Record
Sarah Moore Grimke (1792–1873) was raised on a sprawling Charleston plantation, secretly teaching enslaved children to read despite South Carolina's harsh legal prohibitions. Horrified by the cruelties of human bondage, she converted to Quakerism and moved to Philadelphia alongside her sister Angelina.
Defying deep religious prejudice against women speaking in public, Sarah toured Northern churches lecturing against the sin of slavery. Her 1838 treatise 'Letters on the Equality of the Sexes' provided the foundational biblical and philosophical argument for women's full legal, moral, and economic equality in America.
Key Life Milestones
An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States
Published a searing moral appeal imploring Southern clergy to renounce the sin of slaveholding.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes
Penned the seminal early American feminist manifesto defending universal equality.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialBoston (Massachusetts), United States