1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: This Day in History Class. It's a production of I 2 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hi, I'm Eves, and you're listening to This 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: Day in History Class, a show that makes time travel 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: a little bit easier. Today is February. The day was 5 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: February eighteen o five American abolitionist Angelina grim Key was born. 6 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: She's not to be confused with her great niece, Angelina 7 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: Willed grim Key, who was born in eighteen eighty and 8 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 1: was a writer who gained popularity during the Harlem Renaissance. 9 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: The Angelina grim Key were talking about today was a 10 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 1: white Southern woman who was an activist and women's rights advocate. 11 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: Grim Key was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to a 12 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: slave owning family. She was the fourteenth and last child 13 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: born to John foch Hoole grim Key and Mary Smith 14 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: crim Key. Her father was a Revolutionary War veteran and 15 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 1: a prominent politician and judge in South Carolina. Her mother 16 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: came from a wealthy family that included Governor. Grim Key's 17 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: family had a home in Charleston and a plantation in 18 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: the country. Enslaved people worked the land producing rice and cotton. 19 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: They also worked as household servants. Grim Key's parents were 20 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: fully invested in following the dictates of white upper class 21 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: society in the South. Her father prohibited Angelina and her 22 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: sisters from getting an education. Angelina was very close to 23 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: her older sister Sarah, as they witnessed the atrocities of 24 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: slavery that their parents were complicit in. Their opposition to 25 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: the institution grew. In eighteen nineteen, Sarah went to Philadelphia 26 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: and New Jersey with their father, who was sick and 27 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: seeking medical assistance. Their father died in New Jersey, but 28 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: Sarah stayed in Philadelphia for a while and was introduce 29 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: us to Quakerism. Quakers are members of a religious group 30 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: with Christian roots in mid seventeenth century England. They were 31 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: largely concerned with human rights and often held anti slavery views. 32 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: Sarah soon joined the Quakers, returning to South Carolina briefly 33 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 1: before she moved to Philadelphia. Following Sarah's lead, Angelina also 34 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: became a Quaker in eighteen twenty nine. After having difficulty 35 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: advocating for the anti slavery cause in the South, she 36 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: also moved to Philadelphia. There she joined the Philadelphia Female 37 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: Anti Slavery Society. In eight thirty five, grim Key wrote 38 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: a letter to William Lloyd Garrison, a founder of the 39 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: American Anti Slavery Society and publisher of the abolitionist newspaper 40 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: The Liberator. In the letter, she praised Garrison and wrote 41 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: about slavery and abolitionism. Garrison published it without her consent, 42 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,399 Speaker 1: and it got a lot of pushback from the Quaker community, 43 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: who did not approve of her radical support of abolitionism. 44 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: Despite this disapproval and the fact that she had not 45 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: asked for her letter to be printed, the letter gained 46 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: national attention, and Angelina became more involved with the abolitionist movement. 47 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: She read more anti slavery texts and went to lectures. 48 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 1: In eighteen thirty six, she published the pamphlet and Appeal 49 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 1: to Christian Women of the South, condemning slavery and urging 50 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 1: Southern women to free enslaved people and pay them wages. 51 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: She continued to write abolitionist pamphlets and speak out against slavery. 52 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: Angelina and Sarah began giving anti slavery lectures and organizing 53 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: women's anti slavery groups around the Northeast. They toured in 54 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Though many of their 55 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: lectures were attended by women only. Some of their lectures 56 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: were attended by men and women. Their lectures were already 57 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: controversial since they said slavery was anti Christian, exposed the 58 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: horrors of slavery and criticized slaveholding Southerners and Northerners who 59 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: were complicit in the system, but their lectures in front 60 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: of so called mixed audiences also fueled accusations of unwomanly behavior. 61 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: The sisters began to link the anti slavery cause to 62 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: the issue of women's rights. They continued writing and spoke 63 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: at the Anti Slavery Convention of American Women, even as 64 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: their role as outspoken women in the movement was heavily criticized. 65 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: Angelina married Thomas Weld, another abolitionist, in eighty eight, and 66 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 1: the next year the sisters published the book American Slavery 67 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: As It Is Testimony from a Thousand Witnesses. They also 68 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: continued circulating anti slavery petitions and attending meetings, but they 69 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 1: stopped giving public lectures on the cause and retreated from 70 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: the forefront of abolitionist activism. Angelina supported Abraham Lincoln during 71 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: the Civil War and advocate did it for women's rights 72 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: in suffrage. After the war. She also helped run a 73 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 1: couple of schools with Sarah. She died in Boston in 74 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 1: eight seventy nine. I'm Eve Jeff Coote and hopefully you 75 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,799 Speaker 1: know a little more about history today than you did yesterday. 76 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: Have a hard time staying present as you mindlessly scrolled 77 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: through social media. Lucky for you were stuck in the 78 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 1: past at t d i h C Podcast on Facebook, Instagram, 79 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: and Twitter. Our email address is this day at i 80 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: heeart media dot com. 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