Sarah Moore Grimké
Sarah Moore Grimké (November 26, 1792 – December 23, 1873) was an American
abolitionist, 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.
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