The Grimke Sister Analysis

In the Grimke Sister from South Carolina, the author emphasizes two women who were pioneers for women’s rights and abolition. Angelina Grimke and Sarah Grimke were two wealthy sisters that came from a southern family delivering long speeches about slavery. These two women were very passionate about women’s rights and very outspoken when it came to women’s rights and abolition and they spoke a lot on moral politics. Angelina Grimke and Sarah Grimke taught these women that they could overcome slavery, even if they felt like they had no business to express themselves or their opinions on slavery. With that being a big issue, Sarah Grimke wrote letters on “equality of the sexes” and expressed in those letters how she felt. “Whatever is morally right for a man to do is morally right for a woman to do. “Angelina wrote (322). The author describes her thesis by showing how the Grimke sister started a path for women to speak for what they believed in but also to speak for how they felt. One example that the authosr uses to support her thesis is when she explains how the Grimke sisters took a pioneering speaking tour that took place ten years before …show more content…
In the introduction of the textbook, it explains how the Grimke sister’s main issue was allowing women to speak in public and the many speeches these women gave about slavery. One key example that did show that the textbook and book compare to another is in both the textbook and book it mentions about the Liberator that was written by William Garrison. In the textbook it tells a little information about it but in the book it elaborates more on the liberator and how it was published. I would say that the book and textbook both compare to one another and cover just about the same information. Only difference is in the book it elaborates more on the things then it does in the