Sarah Grimke: The Letters On Equality Of The Sexes

Sarah Moore Grimke was born on November 26th, 1792 in Charleston, South Carolina and died December 23rd, 1873 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Mary and John Faucheraud Grimke and was the eighth child of fourteen children. Her parents were both slaveholders in South Carolina and her father was a wealthy plantation owner as well as an attorney. Growing up on a southern plantation, Sarah and her sister Angelina developed anti-slavery sentiments because of the injustices they observed on a daily basis. At age five, Sarah had claimed seeing a slave being whipped terribly and from then on, had hatred for slavery and wanted to look for ways to end it immediately. Sarah’s experience with education shaped her thoughts and ideas
When Sarah met the Quaker leader, John Woolman, she was immediately inspired by him. He strongly condemned slavery as evil and was the first person to link the discriminated blacks in the North. Later. Sarah had started her own abolition movement. In 1837, Sarah had powerful voiced pieces and the powerful outta all was “The Letters on the Equality of the Sexes”. This was a foundation full of her feminist beliefs. The members of the Congressional General Assembly expressed their opposition to these writings in a Pastoral Letter. But the letter didn’t stop Sarah. The most influential letter was that of “The Letter of Legal Disabilities of Women”. However, one day. Sarah had received a letter from Weld, her sister Angelina’s husband, that had seem to profess the love Weld had for Sarah. Since then, Sarah stopped being public and went silent. Although Sarah had stopped publicly talking about her views, she continued to be a dedicated feminist and abolitionist and her life works of her powerful pieces were her favorite sign of