Angelina emily grimke biography

American abolitionist and feminist (1805–1879)

For her great-niece, the poet and author, see Angelina Weld Grimké.

See also: Grimké sisters

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.

At one point she was the best known, or "most notorious," woman in the country.^{[1]: 100, 104} She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were considered the only notable examples of white Southern women abolitionists.^[2] The sisters lived together as adults, while Angelina was the wife of abolitionist leader Theodore Dwight Weld.

Although raised in Charleston, South Carolina, Angelina and Sarah spent their entire adult lives in the North. Angelina's greatest fame was between 1835, when William Lloyd Garrison published a letter of hers in his anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, and May 18