Sarah Moore Grimke's 'The Liberator'

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Sarah Moore Grimke was born November 26, 1792 in Charleston, South Carolina. She grew up on a slave-owning southern plantation with her sister Angelina. They saw that people weren’t getting treated the same so the became anti-slavery believers and women's right activists. Sarah really wanted to study law just like her brother but because she was a girl she could not go to law school, instead she went to a school that taught her cooking, cleaning, and all of the other “women's jobs”.

She wanted things to change so she took action her first move was to write a letter to William Lloyd Garrison about how women should have rights. The letter was later published as a article in a newspaper called The Liberator. At age 45 Sarah was the first woman

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