Sarah and Angelina Grimke: slaveholders turned abolitionists, the first American women to give public lectures and to advocate women's rights. The third in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. Sarah Moore Grimke (1792 - 1873) and Angelina Emily Grimke (1805 -1879), known as the Grimke sisters, were 19th-century Southern American Quakers, educators, and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights.