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View Angelina Weld Grimke Famous Poems Images. Angelina weld grimke was named after her aunt who had died the year before. This is a list of most famous angelina weld grimké poems.

11 Poems By Angelina Weld Grimke On Love Longing Race
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Angelina grimké weld's speech at pennsylvania hall. Some of her more famous poems include, the eyes of my regret, at april, and trees. Grimké's essays, short fiction, and stories were published in journals (the crisis, opportunity) and anthologies (the new negro, caroling dusk, negro poets and their poems).

Her great aunts on her father's side were southern white abolitionists.

Angelina grimké and her older sister sarah moore grimké were born to a family of enslavers in america's south. Her father archibald was the child of a south carolina slaveholder and a slave on his plantation. This point is brought home in her most radical work, a short story entitled the closing door, where she. Among her most famous published letters was an appeal to the christian women of the south, published in 1836 to try to persuade southern women of the evils of enslavement.