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Grimké
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Grim·ké  (grmk), Sarah Moore 1792-1873.
American feminist and abolitionist. She and her sister Angelina Emily Grimké (1805-1879) were among the first American women to speak publicly against slavery and the repression of women.


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11) The progressive positions of both Graves and the Seneca Falls founders were preceded by the public stands of radical women such as Frances Wright (12) and the Grimke sisters, Angelina and Sarah.
Her tireless contribution to the abolitionist cause as well as her remarkable contributions has caused her to be viewed as a precursor to the more well-known Grimke sisters.
And letters and poems written to women by poet and playwright Angelina Weld Grimke, for example, were not widely circulated until scholar Gloria Hull uncovered Grimke's buried life in an essay in the 1983 anthology Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Kitchen Table/Women of Color).
 
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