Slavery: noun, the state of being a slave. A word we don’t find ourselves using today in the United States, but 200 years ago, you either were a black slave working for nothing who endlessly wondered “why me?”, or you were a wealthy white plantation owner that thought
“better them than me.” Not often did it happen, but every once in awhile, you had the plantation owner that opposed forced labor. In this case, a wealthy plantation owners’ daughter, Angelina
Grimke. It wasn’t uncommon back then for someone to have an opinion on slavery. Slaves had opinions, women had opinions, poor people had opinions… but it didn’t matter, nobody cared.
Since nobody cared, Mrs. Grimke knew it was up to her to make people care. Thus, the beginning of the journey to abolish slavery. …show more content…
John was a renowned lawyer, politician, and a judge. Plus her was a former war veteran who served for the nation. Mary, Angelina’s mother, belonged to an elite family from Charleston. So she was pretty much born into wealth, along with 13 other children, her being the youngest. At the age of thirteen, she made the first of what is to become many opinionated remarks towards something.
She rebelled against the traditional beliefs of the Episcopalian Church, to which she was scorned by fellow church-goers and her parents. As she would come closer to living on her own,
Grimke would become very boisterous. At age 14, Angelina moved with one of her older sisters,
Sarah, to Philadelphia and joined the “Society of Friends”, a movement group against slavery and discrimination.
Angelina took more to the Presbyterian outlook on things rather than Quaker or
Episcopalian. At 21 years old, she started to preach religious values to the slaves in her house.
The church group people she was part of all had the same goal, to abolish slavery. Rev. William
McDowell, the pastor at the church she went to, said he’d abolish slavery by means of
“better them than me.” Not often did it happen, but every once in awhile, you had the plantation owner that opposed forced labor. In this case, a wealthy plantation owners’ daughter, Angelina
Grimke. It wasn’t uncommon back then for someone to have an opinion on slavery. Slaves had opinions, women had opinions, poor people had opinions… but it didn’t matter, nobody cared.
Since nobody cared, Mrs. Grimke knew it was up to her to make people care. Thus, the beginning of the journey to abolish slavery. …show more content…
John was a renowned lawyer, politician, and a judge. Plus her was a former war veteran who served for the nation. Mary, Angelina’s mother, belonged to an elite family from Charleston. So she was pretty much born into wealth, along with 13 other children, her being the youngest. At the age of thirteen, she made the first of what is to become many opinionated remarks towards something.
She rebelled against the traditional beliefs of the Episcopalian Church, to which she was scorned by fellow church-goers and her parents. As she would come closer to living on her own,
Grimke would become very boisterous. At age 14, Angelina moved with one of her older sisters,
Sarah, to Philadelphia and joined the “Society of Friends”, a movement group against slavery and discrimination.
Angelina took more to the Presbyterian outlook on things rather than Quaker or
Episcopalian. At 21 years old, she started to preach religious values to the slaves in her house.
The church group people she was part of all had the same goal, to abolish slavery. Rev. William
McDowell, the pastor at the church she went to, said he’d abolish slavery by means of