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Angelina Grimke Weld
• Wrote a letter to Garrison’s Liberator in 1835, which he published without her consent
• Written off by the South Carolinian community
• Began a speaking tour – 1st women to be featured as public speakers in America
Sarah Moore Grimke
• Wanted to become a lawyer like her father (who served as Chief Justice of S. Carolina’s Supr. Court)
• However, her father was a firm believer in slavery and male dominance
• Considered the workhorse of the 2 sisters in terms of ending slavery and increasing women’s rights
In His Youth
• Born Dec. 12, 1805
• Garrison’s father abandoned the family
• Mom was a hard-worker, supported the family
• WLG sold lemonade & candy
• Became a printer’s apprentice like Ben Franklin
Ardent Abolitionist
• Garrison first joins temperance (anti-alcohol) movement
• Read a book that changed his mind on slavery
• Began writing his own pamphlets, “The Black List,” that pointed out nasty slave owners
• Began The Liberator newspaper on Jan. 1, 1831
• One of the first major abolitionists
• Liberator in print until 13th Amendment (ends slavery)
• Supported the cause though he was beaten, imprisoned, and his newspaper building was burned down at least 3x
• Would go to support women’s rights
In His Youth…
• Born a slave; torn from mother at age 2
• Didn’t know birthday – chose Feb. 14th
• Learned to read & write from slave owner’s wife
• Began teaching himself and other slaves how to read & write
The Man and His Words
• Married a free black woman
• She helped him escape up the Susq. R.
• He moved to Philadelphia, then Rochester
• Becomes a Methodist preacher
• Befriends WLG & writes for The Liberator
• Wrote his autobiography, an instant hit
Legacy
• Wrote the speech “What is a Slave to the 4th of July?” at Women’s Rights movement in Rochester, NY
• Tried to influence John Brown to shy away from violence
• Called out Lincoln for his hypocrisy towards African-Americans
• After Lincoln’s death, he helped mend the war-torn nation
• After Pres. Obama and MLK Jr., probably the most well-known black American
In His Youth…• Father was a failed entrepreneur
• Moved around… a lot!
• Grew up with a young black child as a friend
• Had many different jobs
• After the 1st outspoken abolitionist was murdered (Rev. Lovejoy), Brown gives up his jobs and takes to fighting slavery
The Man with the Plan
• Moved to Kansas when slavery was to be voted on by public
• Ended up killing 5 slave owners in a raid
• Had many family members killed in a diff raid there, too
• Moved back East to begin an armed slave revolution
Harpers Ferry, VA• In an attempt to capture 100’s
of guns to give to slaves, he’s captured by the Virginia Army – led by Robert E. Lee
• Most of the party is killed there
• Brown is put on trial and hanged
• Brown’s most lasting impact• Infuriated abolitionists in the
North
• Scared Southern slave owners to believe this was just the beginning