Sarah Moore Grimké
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Sarah Moore Grimké was an American abolitionist and feminist, 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
Sarah Moore Grimke
Grimké sisters
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The Grimke sisters, Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Emily Grimké, were American writers, educators, and public speakers, best known for their advocacy of abolitionism and women's rights.
Sarah Moore Grimké
…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…
Angelina Emily Grimké
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