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Born into a family of wealthy enslavers and growing up in the South, the Grimk sisters witnessed the horrors of slavery from a young age. As adults, they left their home and moved to Philadelphia to live with Quakers. Prolific writers and lecturers, Sarah Grimk and Angelina Grimk Weld were some of the first women to speak out about abolition and women's rights in the United States. And when they discovered their brother had children with an enslaved woman, the sisters welcomed them as equal members of the family. Angelica Shirley Carpenter's historical narrative nonfiction text details the mostly forgotten lives of these complex women leaders.