South Carolina BAMFs* - Sarah and Angelina Grimke

  While many other notable South Carolinians paid lip service to the evils of slavery (I’m looking at you Mary Chesnut)** Sarah and Angelina Grimke were active participants in the abolition movement. Born into a wealthy Charleston family the sisters easily could have lived off the labor of the family slaves and spent their time sipping mint juleps. However, in true badass fashion, they rejected the easy life and later became the first women to act as agents for the American Anti-Slavery Society among many other accomplishments.

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