Sarah Grimké, Library of Congress, date of image is unknown.
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Sarah Moore Grimké was born in 1792, and was the older sister to Angelica Emily Grimké, born in 1805, the youngest of fourteen children. The pair are known today as the first American advocates for abolition of slavery and women’s rights. The sisters were raised on a slave-owning plantation in the Charleston, South Carolina, and their father John Grimké did not educate his daughters and believed that women were not equal to men. After their father’s death, the sisters moved to Philadelphia and joined the Quaker community, where they began to explore abolitionist and gender-equality ideas. In 1837, the sisters joined the American Antislavery Society, where the sisters became outspoken advocates, writers, and educators until their deaths. The Grimké sisters are celebrated today for defying norms and promoting gender and racial equality.
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