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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. Both sisters became Quakers. In 1835, Angelina joined the interracial Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, which had been founded two years earlier. In 1836, she wrote a powerful “Appeal to the Christian Women of the South,” which urged southern women to violate social custom to “read,” “pray,” “speak,” and “act” on the issue of slavery. Angelina quickly became one of the most important female activists in the movement because she wrote and spoke from her personal experience of slavery.
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National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum
5255 Pleasant Valley Road P.O. Box 55 Peterboro NY 13134
www.nationalabolitionhalloffameandmuseum.org
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A community heritage gift shop, located within the Visitors Center on the Gerrit Smith Estate, National Historic Landmark, in Peterboro NY. The Mercantile is staffed and operated under the management of the Smithsield Community Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic Peterboro.
www.mercantile.gerritsmith.org
Inducted in to 2016
nationalabolitionhalloffameandmuseum.org
PeterboroNY,org
A Peterboro Heritage Site
