Sarah Moore Grimke
Sarah Moore Grimké was born on November 26 in 1792. She was an American abolitionist and advocate of women’s rights.
Sarah and her sister Angelina were active in the abolitionist movement till 1837, when the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts issued a pastoral letter in July of that year strongly denouncing women preachers and reformers, and the sisters thereafter found it necessary to crusade equally for women’s rights. Their lectures at Odeon Hall, Boston, in the spring of 1838 attracted huge crowds.
Sarah wrote An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States (1836), urging abolition, and Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837-1838) in which she presented a powerful argument against religious leaders who claimed to find support in the Bible for the inferior position of women.
Sarah Grimke died on December 23, 1873, in Hyde Park, Massachusetts.
References
The Encyclopedia Britannica
The World Book Encyclopedia
Further Reading
Larry Ceplair (ed.), The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimké (1989)
Gerda Lerner, The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina (1967, reissued 1988)