Letter from Sarah Moore Grimkè, Brookline, [Massachusetts], to Elizabeth Pease Nichol, 1837 Dec[ember] 18

Sarah Moore Grimkè writes to Elizabeth Pease Nichol regarding the books and pamphlets she has sent her and her "English sisters." She discusses emancipation in the West Indies and the anti-slavery cause in Great Britain compared to the United States. She gives thanks to the Darlington Anti-Slavery Society for "the sympathy expressed in the Revolution transmitted to us this thy letter." She asks if Elizabeth has received a French work entitled "Education of mother & the civilization of the human race by women' it is noticed in the Westminster Review. Has it been translated into English?'" Angelina Emily Grimkè also writes a letter following Sarah's in which she describes the anti-slavery work they have done: "we held 90 meetings, which were attended by from 3&400 to 12 &1500 persons. Since I was taken sick we have been staying in the village with some hospital. I did not recover until the winter had set in with its post..we concluded to remain here & spend the winter in sweet retirement." She writes about the reactions and responses they've received during their work, writing "Sometimes a sermon would be preached after we left a place to prove how grossly we were violating Bible principles & female delicacy, Sometimes they were preached when it was rumored we were coming to such or such a town."

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