Sarah grimke born in london

Southern-born American feminist and schoolteacher who lectured, wrote, and campaigned on the issues of women's rights and abolition.

Sarah Grimké – her parents sometimes called her "Sally" – was born in South Carolina, the sixth of 14 children and the second daughter of Mary Smith and John.

Name variations: Sally Grimke. Pronunciation: GRIM-kay. Made godmother to youngest sister ; accompanied father to Philadelphia and New Jersey , nursing him through a fatal illness ; moved to Philadelphia ; accepted into Philadelphia Society of Friends ; underwent training as abolitionist agent in New York City ; attended Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women ; engaged in antislavery speaking tour throughout New England —38 ; moved to New Jersey and retired to private life ; concluded teaching career Translation: Alphonse M.

The ideology of republican motherhood that had taken root in America during the Revolutionary War transformed the boundaries of the domestic world as experienced by respectable middle-class and elite women. The 19th-century American woman, portrayed in her role of mother and housewife, existed largely in a child-centered, private sphere.

This prescription underscored the position of ascribed moral superiority occupied by respectable women within a society which considered them inferior in every other respect. A woman's usefulness and duty precluded both a political existence and the articulation of her legal rights, and the situation was exacerbated in the American South by an ideology which positioned respectable white women on a pedestal of inactivity.

Sarah's father epitomized the masculine South Carolina elite in that he had fought in the Revolutionary War against British tyranny and then established himself as a planter, slaveholder, lawyer, politician and, eventually, an assistant judge of the South Carolina Supreme Court. Sarah's mother came from an Anglo-Irish Puritan background and was counted as a direct descendant of the colonial founder in South Carolina.

Sarah's detailed account of her childhood reveals such a hostility toward a society that denied a white female the right to obtain the same level of education.

In a society which valued wealth, family, and status, all these factors had daily significance. After her christening at age four, Sarah grew up securely within the Charleston planter aristocracy, surrounded by a large number of household servants. The family's place of residence was largely dependent upon crops and seasons: from November until mid-May of each year except carnival week, in February, spent in Charleston , they lived out at their plantation house; otherwise they were in town.

As a matron of elevated social status, Sarah's mother spent little time with her children, leaving them under the supervision of house slaves; Sarah was like other children of her class in discovering quickly that even young daughters of the master could order these slaves around and expect to be obeyed.