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Hi my name is Sarah and my name is Angelina grimke and we are the first girls that spoke in front of a state legislature as representatives of the american anti slaver society.

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In 1836 i wrote An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South urging Southern women to petition their state legislatures and church officials to end slavery.

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Me and my sister eloquently fought the injustices of slavery, racism and sexism, during the mid-19th century.

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In 1838 Angelina became the first woman to address a legislative body when she spoke to the Massachusetts State Legislature on women’s rights and abolition. Active in the women’s movement, they helped set the agenda later followed by Elizabeth Candy Stanton Susan B. Anthony Lucretia Mott and others calling for equal educational opportunities and the vote.

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As daughters of a prominent South Carolina judge and plantation owner, the Grimke sisters witnessed the suffering of enslavement.

Determined to speak out, they were eventually forced to move to the North, where they continued to appeal to northerners and southerners to work toward abolition.

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After the Civil War, they continued to champion the causes of equality and women’s rights Through their examples and their words the sisters proved that women could affect the course of political events and have a far reaching influence on society.

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One historian said of Sarah’s writings They were a milestone on the road to the Woman’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls and central to the feminist writings in the decades that followed.

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Me and Angelina Grimké Weld were born in Charleston, South Carolina. Their father, John Facheraud Grimké, owned many enslaved people. Their mother, Mary Grimké, was the daughter of a wealthy and powerful plantation-owning family. Although Sarah was 13 years older than Angelina, the two sisters were very close.