Angelina Emily Grimké (1805–1879) was an abolitionist and suffragette. Angelina was born in Charleston, South Carolina to a aristocratic Episcopalian judge who owned slaves. She was very close to her sister Sarah Moore Grimké. Despite the influence of their father, both sisters became abolitionists, and after converting to the Quaker faith, they joined Society of Friends. In 1835, Angelina wrote an anti-slavery letter to Abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison, who published it in, The Liberator. In 1836, after Angelina published An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States, she and her sister were threatened with arrest in South Carolina. So, they moved to New York where they spoke at abolitionist meetings. In 1837, Angelina was invited to be the first woman to speak at the Massachusetts State Legislature. In 1838, she married the famous abolitionist, Theodore Dwight Weld.
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