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.

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

2021年4月23日 · John Grimké had served as an officer in the Revolutionary War before leading a nearly four decade long legal career. Sarah and Angelina were just two out of John and Mary’s fourteen children, all of whom were raised in Charleston. The Grimké family were members of the Charleston elite, mostly made up of jurists and plantation owners.

Sarah Grimké and Angelina Grimké Weld, sisters from a South Carolina slave-holding family, were active abolitionist public speakers and pioneer women’s rights advocates in a time when American women rarely occupied the public stage.

Grimké sisters, American antislavery crusaders and women’s rights advocates.

2025年2月23日 · 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.

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. She was one of the first African-American women to have a play publicly performed. [1]

Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Grimké Weld were born in Charleston, South Carolina. Their father, John Facheraud Grimké, owned many enslaved people. Their mother, Mary Grimké, was the daughter of a wealthy and powerful plantation-owning family. Although Sarah was 13 years older than Angelina, the two sisters were very close.

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. The Grimke sisters, as they were known, grew to despise slavery after witnessing its cruel effects at a young age.

Most of the main events actually occurred and nearly all the characters are real people who knew the Grimkés. Because it spans three generations of this mixed-race family, it is told in two volumes. It is the author's hope that their imperfect but heroic lives will become a familiar part of the American saga.