Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (20 February 1805 – 26 October 1879) was an American political activist, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. While she was raised a southerner, she spent her entire adult life, by choice, living in the North.
Grimké married Theodore Weld, a prominent abolitionist himself, in May 1838. They lived in New Jersey, with Sarah Grimke, and raised three children, and supported themselves by running two schools, the later located in the Raritan Bay Union utopian community. After the Civil War ended, the Grimke-Weld household moved to Hyde Park, Massachusetts, where they spent their last years. It was during this period, that Angelina and Sarah became active in the Massachusetts Women's Suffrage Association.
Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (20 February 1805 – 26 October 1879) was an American political activist, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. While she was raised a southerner, she spent her entire adult life, by choice, living in the North.
Grimké married Theodore Weld, a prominent abolitionist himself, in May 1838. They lived in New Jersey, with Sarah Grimke, and raised three children, and supported themselves by running two schools, the later located in the Raritan Bay Union utopian community. After the Civil War ended, the Grimke-Weld household moved to Hyde Park, Massachusetts, where they spent their last years. It was during this period, that Angelina and Sarah became active in the Massachusetts Women's Suffrage Association.
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