Letter from Angelina Emily Grimké, Brookline, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 8th Mo 17th. [1837]

Angelina Emily Grimké writes to Amos A. Phelps that no other person than Phelps has accused her and her sister of holding “promiscuous meetings.” Abolitionists have been supported of them. She compares her timidity toward speaking in front of men to the feelings that black men must have had when they first began to address white people. She also expresses her objection to Phelps’s having published their correspondence. She feels there should have been a more proper public discussion regarding both sides’ position on women’s rights.
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