Angelina Grimke's Death
Born (Birthday) February 20, 1805
Death Date October 26, 1879
Age of Death 74 years
Cause of Death Complications From A Stroke
Profession Civil Rights Leader
The civil rights leader Angelina Grimke died at the age of 74. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
US abolitionist, writer, and women’s rights advocate who became famous when a letter she sent to William Lloyd Garrison was published in his newspaper.
Her sister Sarah Grimke was also a women’s rights activist. She married Theodore Weld in 1838 in Philadelphia.
Quotes
"Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
"Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
"I am a mystery to myself.