Question

What was the connection that Angelina Grimké saw between society’s treatment of slaves and of women?

Answer 1

The Grimké sisters were among the first to explicitly connect race oppression to women’s oppression. Using a Kantian ethical argument that opposes using humans as means rather than as ends in themselves, she noted that historically “woman has been made a means to promote the welfare of man”

She tied the subordination of slaves and women to educational deprivation, noting that both women and slaves been deemed mentally inferior “while being denied the privileges of liberal education”