Writing in 1836 to the Southern women she grew up among in Charleston, Angelina Grimké argues from Scripture that slavery is a sin and that women have both the power and the duty to resist it. She urges them to read, to pray, to speak to their husbands and to free their own slaves, citing Esther, Daniel and the Apostles who defied unjust law.
A landmark of American abolitionist and women’s rights writing, publicly burned in South Carolina. Download the free EPUB.