Best Known For Abolitionist and feminist Sarah Moore Grimké and
her sister Angelina were the first women to testify before a
state legislature on the issue of blacks' rights. Think you know
about Biography? Answer questions and see how you rank against
other players.Play Now Sarah Moore Grimké was born on November
26, 1792, in Charleston, South Carolina. In Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, Grimké became a Quaker. In 1837, she made an
appearance at the Anti-Slavery Convention in New York, and
published Letters on the Equality of the Sexes. She later became
a teacher. During the Civil War, she supported the Union cause.
Grimké died on December 23, 1873, in Hyde Park, Massachusetts.
"All I ask our brethren is, that they will take their feet from
off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground
which God designed us to occupy." "Slavery was a millstone about
my neck, and marred my comfort from the time I can remember
myself." Sarah Moore Grimké was born in Charleston, South
Carolina, on November 26, 1792.