"A more unlikely social background for the dedicated crusader Angelina Grimké can hardly be imagined. Born in 1805 to a wealthy and socially prominent slaveholding family in Charleston, South Carolina, Angelina and her older sister, Sarah, had rejected slavery by the time Angelina entered her twenties. In 1829, Angelina left her home to live with Sarah in Philadelphia, and within a few years abolition of slavery and emancipation of women had become...