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Grimké

[ grim-kee ]

noun

  1. Sarah Moore, 1792–1873, and her sister Angelina Emily, 1805–79, U.S. abolitionists and women's-rights leaders.


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The veteran antislavery and woman's rights worker, Angelina Grimké Weld, came out of her retirement for the meeting.

Of these things the Grimké sisters knew nothing until after the war which had freed their illegitimate relatives.

The writer then began a private letter to Miss Grimké as a personal friend.

You see my answer to the question would be emphatically Angelina and Sarah M. Grimké.

When the war was over, Col. Grimké began the practice of law in Charleston, and rose in a few years to the front rank at the bar.

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