Sarah Grimke

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  • Sarah Moore Grimke (1792 – 1873) 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, she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1820s and became a Quaker, as did her younger sister Angelina. The sisters spoke on the abolitionist lecture circuit. They recounted their knowledge of slavery firsthand, urged abolition, and also became activists for women's rights.

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