Sarah & Angelina Grimke, born to a slave-owning supreme-court judge in Charleston, they fled north, where their deep personal revulsion to slavery led them to become the first females to speak in public in the US. Quaker converts, abolitionists, crusaders for women’s rights, then were reviled in the South and often ridiculed in the North. When they learned their brother Henry had children by a slave women, they brought them north and paid for their education.
