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The Grimke's and Angelina's husband they wrote American Slavery As It Is in 1839 it shared firsthand stories about slavery.

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The sisters were raised in South Carolina. And they grew up in a wealthy slave owning family.

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After the girls witnessing slavery and its cruel effects at such a young age they soon hated it. 

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The Grimke Sisters moved to Philadelphia while living there they became some of the first female abolitionists.

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Sarah and Angelina had become active writers, and speakers for woman's rights and abolition.

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They asked their mother to give them their family inheritance money early so they freed 7 of their family's enslaved workers.

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These lady's were the first woman representatives of the American Anti-Slavery Society to speak in front of state legislatures.

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Sarah never married due to the fear of being a slave wife. Angelina Married Theodore Weld an abolitionist in 1836.

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They strongly believed that women should have the same rights as men and that slavery was evil and needed to be gone.

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The Grimke Sisters will forever be known as a couple of the first woman to speak in public about slavery.