How Did Sarah Moore Grimke Respond To The Oppression Of Women?

As a daughter of a powerful judge in the south on a plantation ran by slaves, ironically Sarah Moore Grimke would begin to disagree with the politics in her surroundings. Furthermore, she would grow up to experience oppression based on her gender, and also view the unjust discrimination against people of color. Despite being born on a very successful plantation operated by slaves in Charleston South Carolina , Sarah Moore Grimké developed an opposition of slavery and the oppression of women through experiencing first hand what it was like in these small demographics at the time. Born on November 11th, in 1792, Sarah Moore Grimké grew up on a successful plantation in the south, as the sixth child in the Grimké Family. She later became the
After her father's death in 1819, and traveling back and forth from Philadelphia and Charleston, her opposition of slavery was reinforced. “…after being for many months in Pennsylvania when I went back it seemed as if the sight of [the slaves’] condition was insupportable…can compare my feeling only with a canker incessantly gnawing…. I was as one in bonds looking on their sufferings I could not soothe or lessen….” Sarah said, during one of her visits to Philadelphia. She then met with members of the Quakers' Society of Friends. Finding their beliefs about slavery and women's rights to be in line in with her own, Sarah decided to join them, and convert to Quakerism. In 1829, she moved to Philadelphia officially where she would continue to gain popularity. Nevertheless, she was seen as a radical abolitionist at the time, but that didn’t stop her continuing to start a movement. “I know you do not make the laws, but I also know that you are the wives and mothers, the sisters and daughters of those who do; and if you really suppose you can do nothing to overthrow slavery, you are greatly mistaken.” Sarah said in her Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, trying to coax more woman from the south to rebel.Consequently, the support she received also prompted her to write more and more about the equality of the sexes. Accordingly, By the 1830’s, Sarah was not only a popular abolitionist, but a widespread women's right activist (Grimke Sisters.” National Parks