Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (February 20, 1805 – October 26, 1879) was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. At one point she was the best known, or "most notorious," woman in the country.

Although raised on a slave-owning plantation in South Carolina, Angelina Emily Grimké Weld grew up to become an ardent abolitionist writer and speaker, as well as a women’s rights activist. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were among the first women to speak in public against slavery, defying gender norms and risking violence in doing so.

2019年6月2日 · Angelina Grimké (February 21, 1805–October 26, 1879) was a southern woman from a family of enslavers who, along with her sister, Sarah, became an advocate of abolitionism. The sisters later became advocates of women's rights after their anti-slavery efforts were criticized because their outspokenness violated traditional gender roles.

Angelina Weld Grimké (born Feb. 27, 1880, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died June 10, 1958, New York, N.Y.) was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance.

2015年2月26日 · Two early and prominent activists for abolition and women’s rights, Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimke Weld (1805-1879) were raised in the cradle of slavery on a plantation in South Carolina.

This is the story of Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Grimké Weld, two southern white women who became leading abolitionists and women’s rights activists.

Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958) was an African-American journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet. By ancestry, Grimké was three-quarters white — the child of a white mother and a half-white father — and considered a woman of color.

Soon after his marriage (1838) to Angelina Grimké, a coworker in the antislavery crusade, Weld withdrew to private life on a farm in Belleville, New Jersey.

Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879), abolitionist writer and lecturer, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to Mary Smith and John Faucheraud Grimké, a prominent judge and slaveholder. Following her older sister Sarah, Angelina concluded that slavery was wrong and left Charleston for Philadelphia in 1829.

The Grimké sisters, Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873) and Angelina Emily Grimké [1] (1805–1879), were the first nationally known white American female advocates of abolitionism and women's rights. [2][3] Both Sarah and Angelina were public speakers, writers, and educators.