The Great Awakening: Reform Movements of the 1830's

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Female Leaders in the Abolition Movement

Sarah and Angelina Grimké

They were daughters of a slave owner, and they spoke eloquently for aboliton. Angelina published An Appeal to Christian Women of the South, in which she told women to "overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty." The Grimké sisters were criticized by the Massachusetts clergy because the sisters assumed "the place and tone of man as public reformer."

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The Great Awakening: Reform Movements of the 1830's

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