2. The 2nd Great Awakening was America’s 2nd largest Religious Revival.
Religious meetings got serious and lots of peoples repented and got
“saved”. Many people went back to their sinful ways after a while.
It began to increase in the late 1790’s and it decreased 1860’s.
This began a variety of new Religious groups and the revival of old
ones.
This led to the beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement.
3. • During the 2nd Great Awakening there were meeting such as
the one below. Where “repentant sinners dedicated
themselves to lives of rectitude and social reform.” – The
American Pageant (Ch.15)
4. Since this Great Revival had Americans repenting for
their sins they believe that the Nation should repent
for its greatest sin which was slavery.
The Bible speaks against slavery, it says “Thou shall not
steal” Theodore Weld believed that when a man is a
slave the slaveholder has stolen his rights to be his own
man.- The Bible Against Slavery, 1837
The “abolitionist movement enabled women to carve
out a place in the public sphere.” This stated that the
Anti-slavery Movement gave women the chance to
speak in public for their rights and the rights of slaves.
– Voices of Freedom, Pg. 232
5.
6. The Grimké sisters assembled other women and
Africans to speak out. They attended meetings
and circulated petitions. They also wrote many
documents to support Anti-slavery and the
Women’s Rights Movements.
Such as the one Angelina Grimké wrote in The
Liberator Newspaper, August 2nd, 1837, “My
Doctrine, is that whatever is morally right for man
to do, it is morally right for woman to do.”
7. • Angelina Grimké wrote a book called Appeal to
the Christian Women of the South “urging them
to take a stand against slavery.” Sara Grimké and
her sister Angelina “began to deliver popular
lectures that offered scathing condemnation of
slavery from the perspective of those who
witnessed its evils firsthand.”– Voices of Freedom,
(Pg. 232)
• This made a mixture in the lecture of male &
female genders and also aroused the debates.
They were indeed criticized by many including
female abolitionist such as, Catharine Beecher.
8. • Charlotte Forten Grimké (wife of a Grimké’s
son) was mixed with African American and
was a black educator who taught “illiterate
southern slaves to read.” – Her Story (Pg. 45)
Sarah and Angelina were born on wealthy Southern Plantations.
They moved to Philadelphia at different times.
Worked together to get women’s rights.
At Angelina’s 80th year they tested the 15th Amendment and voted.
Sarah was Angelina’s sister and Godmother.
Sarah had studied to be a lawyer following her father who was a
judge.
