Angelina Grimke's View of Andrew Jackson

The fourteenth and final child was born to Judge and Mrs. Grimké on February 20, 1805. Little did they know what their baby girl would have accomplished by her death. As a matter of fact, one might not even begin to imagine that Angelina Grimké, along with her sister Sarah, would have anything to do with equal rights for the African American population or women. This was due to the fact that Angelina was brought up surrounded by hundreds of slaves owned by her father, who was a strong advocate of slavery as well as the subordination of women. He even went so far as to forbid his daughters to read. (http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2000/grimke4.html).
In 1829, after the death of her father, Angelina joined her sister in Philadelphia, converting to the Quaker faith. That very same year, Angelina wrote a letter to William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of his own newspaper, concerning the issue of slavery. He printed this letter without her knowledge. Immediately, Angelina an...