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  1. Angelina Grimke and Her Secular Language of Rights

    Date(s): October 2, 1837 Location: WORCESTER, Massachusetts Tag(s): Angelina Grimke, Secularism, Anti-slavery, Religion, Women, women's rights 

    In 1837, Angelina Grimke authored a series of letters to Catharine Beecher on the topic of the cultural roles of women as they relate to their social, economic, and political rights. One was reprinted in Women's Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830-1870 by Kathryn Sklar. In the letter retitled by Sklar as, “Human Rights Not Founded on Sex,” Grimke argues that humans have rights...