Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, come on your Story Hours on.
Speaker 2: Welcome to your Story Hour. I'm Aunt Nicki and.
Speaker 3: I'm Uncle John, and we're here to bring you today's
Speaker 3: inspiring story. Say, Aunt Nikki, you know what what, Uncle John.
Speaker 3: With all the people around the world who listen to
Speaker 3: your Story Hour, I'm beginning to feel well popular.
Speaker 2: Well, now, Uncle John, I guess you might just be popular.
Speaker 2: After all, A popular person is someone who is liked, admired,
Speaker 2: or enjoyed by others, and you're all of the above.
Speaker 3: Oh, Aunt Nikki, you're going to make me blush? Do
Speaker 3: you really think so?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: What got you thinking about popularity anyway?
Speaker 3: Well, I read a quote today by an actor who said,
Speaker 3: I don't care whether people like me or dislike me.
Speaker 3: I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm
Speaker 3: here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Speaker 2: Hmm, that's a very good thought, Uncle John.
Speaker 3: I agree. I want to be the best human being
Speaker 3: I can possibly be too.
Speaker 2: Then, I'm sure you'll relate to the two girls in
Speaker 2: Aunt Carol's story for today. They did what they believed
Speaker 2: was right, no matter what other people thought of them.
Speaker 3: Well, then I'm eager to hear all about it wonderful.
Speaker 2: But first I should let you know that part of
Speaker 2: this story is told through the eyes of one of
Speaker 2: the main characters. It is, and very little has been
Speaker 2: written about this experience of hers. So we've taken the
Speaker 2: bits and pieces that we know about her adventure and
Speaker 2: woven them together.
Speaker 3: But the heart of the story is true, oh.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, So listen now as we bring you the story
Speaker 2: entitled The Sisters Grimkey.
Speaker 4: Sarah and Angelina Grimkey were Southern Bills born in South Carolina,
Speaker 4: the daughters of wealthy plantation owner and respected judge John Grimkey.
Speaker 4: Sarah and Angelina witness first hand the brutality of slavery.
Speaker 4: Though Sarah was thirteen years older than her sister, whom
Speaker 4: she called Nina, the two were inseparable in their abhorrence
Speaker 4: of slavery and in their campaign for the right of
Speaker 4: women to vote. Starting in eighteen thirty six, the sisters
Speaker 4: toured New England, giving speeches known as parlor talks to
Speaker 4: inspire new female anti slavery societies in the North. Many
Speaker 4: people rejected and criticized their activist behavior. Our story begins
Speaker 4: just outside of a Quaker meeting hall.
Speaker 5: Didst though take notice of the women walking toward our
Speaker 5: Quaker meeting hall.
Speaker 6: I would recognize the notorious Sarah and Angelina Grimkey anywhere,
Speaker 6: though it's been a while since they regularly attended our meetings.
Speaker 5: Since before they were ostracized by the Philadelphia Society of Friends.
Speaker 5: We strongly object to their association with non Quakers in
Speaker 5: their fight for the abolition of slaves.
Speaker 6: Yes, their involvement in politics shames us.
Speaker 5: All sh they're approaching.
Speaker 6: Hello, friends, Hello Sarah, Will THEE and thy sister sit
Speaker 6: with us today?
Speaker 1: Thank you for the invitation, but we're going to sit
Speaker 1: on the bench at the back of the meeting.
Speaker 6: Hall, the colored bench.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're welcome to join us.
Speaker 5: We could never mingle with those women.
Speaker 6: Well, since the Lord created all men and women as equals,
Speaker 6: Angelina and I shall mingle with them. We shall go
Speaker 6: inside and take our seats. May the Holy Spirit speak
Speaker 6: to thy heart to day and to yours.
Speaker 1: Surprises me that some Quakers who believe in the abolition
Speaker 1: of slavery object so strongly to the idea of treating
Speaker 1: black citizens.
Speaker 7: The same as white citizens.
Speaker 6: Sad Indeed, hopefully we can lead by example. Speaking of which, yes,
Speaker 6: look Nina that black Quaker woman standing over there by herself. Yes,
Speaker 6: let's go talk to all right, excuse me, May my
Speaker 6: sister and I sit next to you when we go inside.
Speaker 8: For the service, thee would sit next to me.
Speaker 6: Yes, we would then welcome.
Speaker 8: Imagine the renowned Grinky Sisters sitting next to me. I've
Speaker 8: not yet been to one of thy parlor talks. But
Speaker 8: folks say so many women attend thy talks that a
Speaker 8: parlor cannot contain the crowd.
Speaker 1: That's true, So our parlor talks are mostly held in churches.
Speaker 6: But we've been granted an opportunity to speak at the
Speaker 6: Massachusetts State House, to the House of Representatives, to the
Speaker 6: state legislature.
Speaker 8: But you're women.
Speaker 6: We will be the first women in America to ever
Speaker 6: speak to a legislative body.
Speaker 1: Sarah is quite excited. She dreamed of being an attorney
Speaker 1: when she was a child.
Speaker 8: Oh how I long to hear thy plans. But look,
Speaker 8: we must hurry inside, otherwise we'll miss the service.
Speaker 4: As the day of their appearance before the Massachusetts State
Speaker 4: Legislature approached, the Grimky Sisters spent many hours planning their speeches.
Speaker 1: Sarah, can we go over our speeches again? Again?
Speaker 6: We've already practiced them twice. I know.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure we could make our
Speaker 1: presentation to the House of Representatives in our sleep if
Speaker 1: we had to.
Speaker 6: All right, I will start out by presenting the concept
Speaker 6: that God created men and women as equals. Therefore, as
Speaker 6: citizens of this republic who equally share in the fate
Speaker 6: of our beloved nation, women should have equal political power
Speaker 6: to men.
Speaker 1: And then I'll refer to the petitions against slavery the
Speaker 1: twenty thousand women in Massachusetts have signed. I'll speak on
Speaker 1: their behalf about the inhumanity and immorality of slavery.
Speaker 6: Together, we will present a case of such sound reasoning
Speaker 6: that any attorney would be proud of our argument.
Speaker 4: However, things did not turn out as the sisters planned.
Speaker 1: Oh, Sarah, you sound like death.
Speaker 6: Death is a knocking at my door yet, but a
Speaker 6: nasty cole decided to let himself in without even asking
Speaker 6: my permission. Oh Nina, I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 6: I'll be able to speak tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Or you have to speak, Sarah. Presenting an argument to
Speaker 1: a legislative body is the culmination of your life's dreams
Speaker 1: and plans. Dearest Nina, you can bring my dreams to life.
Speaker 9: Me.
Speaker 6: But how as Moses spoke the words of God to
Speaker 6: the children of Israel. You can speak my words to
Speaker 6: the House of Representatives, but you've heard me present my argument,
Speaker 6: and Paula talks all over New England.
Speaker 1: True, and I do know exactly what you would say
Speaker 1: to the legislat.
Speaker 6: You are well prepared for this challenge, and I'm sure
Speaker 6: you'll do wonderfully.
Speaker 1: I might be well prepared, but I've I've ever spoken
Speaker 1: to an audience without you by my side. I'm terrified
Speaker 1: to do it alone.
Speaker 6: How about I tell you a story to call you nerves?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, please distract me all right.
Speaker 6: Let me think of a story that might do the trick.
Speaker 4: Hm.
Speaker 6: I know, I'll tell you the story of my greatest
Speaker 6: act of disobedience. As you know, we grew up on
Speaker 6: our family plantation and were taught all the skills our
Speaker 6: parents believed would help us manage a wealthy home. We
Speaker 6: learned arithmetic, how to pick cotton, and how to embroider
Speaker 6: dainty flowers on to cushions. But I was much more
Speaker 6: interested in the scholastic areas that our brothers were learning.
Speaker 6: One day in the library, Thomas spread out a large
Speaker 6: map on the table to show.
Speaker 10: Me see, Sarah. This map is of South Carolina. The
Speaker 10: dots show where all the towns are, and our plantations
Speaker 10: should be about here. Interesting, And this dot right by
Speaker 10: the ocean is Charleston, the town we visit every summer.
Speaker 9: What are these monks that look like bumps?
Speaker 10: Those are the Appalachian Mountains the corner of South Carolina.
Speaker 7: Oh well, will will? I see you're giving your sister
Speaker 7: a geography lesson Thomas. Yes, Father, Well, I must borrow
Speaker 7: your student for a moment. Sarah, come with me. I
Speaker 7: have a surprise for you.
Speaker 9: I love surprises. Where is my surprise?
Speaker 2: Father?
Speaker 7: Your surprise is standing right in front of you.
Speaker 9: Hello, miss a girl. Father, you've brought me a.
Speaker 7: Friend, not a friend, Sarah, a sleeve. This is Hitty,
Speaker 7: your very own slaw.
Speaker 9: Hetty. What a pretty name, and you look very friendly.
Speaker 9: I think I should like you as much as I
Speaker 9: like your name.
Speaker 6: Despite Father's differentiation between slaves and friends, Hetty and I
Speaker 6: quickly became inseparable. She was my closest playmate.
Speaker 9: Hetty. Let's arrange my doll collection. Oh they so pretty?
Speaker 9: I know. With pretend we're acting out saying, from the Bible,
Speaker 9: maybe the story of Esther? Who's Esther? You don't know
Speaker 9: the story of Queen Esther?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 9: What about other Bible stories? Do you know the story
Speaker 9: of Ruth and bowass Gno, Miss Isaac and Rebecca?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 9: Why don't you know these Bible stories? Slaves don't get
Speaker 9: Bible learning. Well, I think you should be taught about
Speaker 9: the Bible, you and all the other slave chilling. I'm
Speaker 9: gonna ask father, Father, will be in the library with
Speaker 9: my brothers and so.
Speaker 7: Boys always remember that a good lawyer.
Speaker 9: Please, Father, Sarah, Father, can I teach the slave chilling
Speaker 9: about the Bible? What? Hetty doesn't know any Bible stories?
Speaker 9: She says, slave chilling aren't taught about the Bible, but
Speaker 9: they should be. Can I teach them?
Speaker 7: Well, now that's an interesting dilemma, a provocative topic. I
Speaker 7: was just setting up a debate for your brothers. How
Speaker 7: would you like to participate?
Speaker 9: Oh? Yes, but suh, she's.
Speaker 10: A Yeah, she's a girl.
Speaker 9: But you know, when I grow up, I want to
Speaker 9: be an attorney.
Speaker 7: And you know that girls cannot become attorneys. But you
Speaker 7: can provide good practice for your brothers. So boys, listen up. Yes, Father,
Speaker 7: Thomas and Sarah will have a debate. Thomas, you shall
Speaker 7: argue against teaching slave children the Bible. Sarah shall support
Speaker 7: the idea. Ready begin, give me a moment to think.
Speaker 10: Okay, thought about a reason why slaves shouldn't be taught
Speaker 10: the Bible. People say that if slaves knew the Bible's teachings,
Speaker 10: they would become rebellious.
Speaker 9: Thomas, the Bible shouldn't make people rebellious.
Speaker 1: But the opposite.
Speaker 9: The wisest man whoever lived, King Solomon said that only
Speaker 9: an evil man seeks rebellion.
Speaker 10: Well, what about Moses? He freed the children of Israel
Speaker 10: from slavery. Don't you think that our slaves would start
Speaker 10: looking for their own Moses.
Speaker 9: Why would slaves look for a Moses when they could
Speaker 9: look to Jesus, the Creator and Savior of the whole world.
Speaker 9: And Jesus taught his disciples if anyone desires to be first,
Speaker 9: he shall be last of all and servant of all.
Speaker 10: Father. That's not fair. How can I refute something Jesus said?
Speaker 7: Well, then, Sarah, you've won this debate. I swear if
Speaker 7: you were born a boy, you just might have become
Speaker 7: the greatest attorney in the country. So may i, father,
Speaker 7: may you become an attorney.
Speaker 9: No, may I teach the slave children about the Bible.
Speaker 7: Oh, I have many reservations about this idea, bud Yes,
Speaker 7: you may, thank you father.
Speaker 9: How do you wait? Yes, miss, Father gave me permission
Speaker 9: to tell bob stores on Sunday afternoons. H how wonderful.
Speaker 9: In Bible times, it was illegal for anyone to appear
Speaker 9: uninvited before the King of Persia. If they did, they
Speaker 9: were killed. Esther, the queen, was a Jew. She found
Speaker 9: out that an evil man was plotting to have all
Speaker 9: the Jews killed. So to save the lives of her people,
Speaker 9: as to put on her finest dress and so her
Speaker 9: glittering crown on her head. Then she bravely marched to
Speaker 9: the king's court, right past the scary guards. What happened? Then?
Speaker 9: The king recognized his lovely wife and held out his
Speaker 9: scepter in welcome that nut she won't be killed.
Speaker 6: I loved telling Hetty and the other children Bible stories,
Speaker 6: but I longed to teach them to read the scriptures
Speaker 6: for themselves. It didn't seem right to have them hear
Speaker 6: about the lord's second hand. So I did something that
Speaker 6: I knew would make our father angry if he were
Speaker 6: ever to find out.
Speaker 9: Hmmmmmm, Hetty, have you ever wished you could read the Bible?
Speaker 11: Yes, miss, but as slaves don't know how to, I
Speaker 11: can teach you to read namas it's illegal for slaves
Speaker 11: to learn how to read. I don't want no trouble,
Speaker 11: but bro it.
Speaker 9: If no one ever found out, it will be a
Speaker 9: secret just between the two of us.
Speaker 2: We'll find out what happens to Sarah and Hetty in
Speaker 2: a minute. But first, Uncle John and I want to
Speaker 2: tell you kids about Adventures in the Holy Bible.
Speaker 3: That's right, Aunt Nikki. We are so fortunate to live
Speaker 3: in a time where we can read the Bible in
Speaker 3: the open. We don't have to keep our Bible studies
Speaker 3: a secret.
Speaker 2: The Bible is full of such interesting stories and good
Speaker 2: life lessons.
Speaker 3: Yes, and Adventures in the Holy Bible is such a
Speaker 3: fun way to get to know the Bible better.
Speaker 2: The Adventures are a series of fun and free Bible lessons.
Speaker 2: They are non denominational, which means they take you through
Speaker 2: Bible principles without promoting any particular church's beliefs.
Speaker 3: And the best part is that as you complete the
Speaker 3: lessons you'll be earning for f read our stories on
Speaker 3: the life of Jesus.
Speaker 2: We encourage you to check out the adventures on our
Speaker 2: website at yourstoryour dot org. But now let's get back
Speaker 2: to our story called the Sister's Grim.
Speaker 9: Ky.
Speaker 6: I knew it was illegal to teach slaves to read,
Speaker 6: but I didn't care. The most important thing was that
Speaker 6: heady learn how to read the scriptures.
Speaker 11: Your hair is so soft, miss.
Speaker 9: Good, then you don't need to brush it anymore. Instead,
Speaker 9: I can teach you how to read. Ah hear RDI
Speaker 9: is my spellumble. I'm gonna use it to teach you
Speaker 9: your letters. But but why somebody, Jesus, nobody will see us.
Speaker 9: We'll be careful. I'll only give you reading lessons that night,
Speaker 9: when you're supposed to be helping me get ready for bed. Come,
Speaker 9: let's go step by the fire so we can see. Yes, niss,
Speaker 9: all right? See this letter that looks like a snake.
Speaker 9: It sounds like a snake to you. It's an as
Speaker 9: s S makes a sound. It's the first letter in
Speaker 9: my name, Sarah. What's the first letter in my name?
Speaker 9: It's right here h H When H is at the
Speaker 9: beginning of a name or sentence, it looks like a
Speaker 9: gate c. But when it's in the middle of a word,
Speaker 9: it looks like this, more like a chair.
Speaker 7: What was that?
Speaker 9: Oh, it's just the house creaking. It does that, and
Speaker 9: not when the temperature changes. Oh I was Yeah, somebody
Speaker 9: found us out. Don't worry, Hetty, our lessons are gonna
Speaker 9: go just fine, Hetty. I just told mother that I'm
Speaker 9: getting ready for bed, and I will. But first, are
Speaker 9: you ready for your reading? Oh? Yes, miss sh Grab
Speaker 9: the spilling boot and come over.
Speaker 4: By the fire.
Speaker 11: First, I need to hang a planket over the keyhole
Speaker 11: in the door as usual, so that nobody can peek
Speaker 11: in and see what would do it?
Speaker 9: And now to get the book, come and sit right
Speaker 9: here next to me. Okay, ready, let's start with an
Speaker 9: easy review. What's this letter? Jay? Correct? In this letter?
Speaker 6: You good?
Speaker 9: You know the whole alphabet now, and you've also been
Speaker 9: getting better out sounding out words. So I'm gonna write
Speaker 9: a short sentence and see if you can read it.
Speaker 9: What does this say? God loves me? God loves me?
Speaker 9: I can read it. Yay, you can read.
Speaker 6: Days and weeks passed in a flurry. I could hardly
Speaker 6: wait for evening to come so I could continue Heady's
Speaker 6: reading lessons. Teaching Heady to read and write made me
Speaker 6: feel daring and invincible. I didn't think anything could go amiss,
Speaker 6: but I was wrong.
Speaker 9: Here Heady read this, and God said, let there be light.
Speaker 9: Oh no, somebody's.
Speaker 12: Coming, Sarah.
Speaker 7: Sarah, I came to tell you that Thomas has been
Speaker 7: accepted at Yale for college.
Speaker 9: Thomas is a leaving Yes.
Speaker 7: I know he thinks he wants to be a minister,
Speaker 7: but I'm sure that attending Yale would show him that
Speaker 7: his best course of action is to become an attorney
Speaker 7: like me.
Speaker 9: I don't want Thomas to go away to college.
Speaker 7: I know that, Sarah, but he Sarah, why is your
Speaker 7: slave holding a spelling book? Um?
Speaker 9: Well we were.
Speaker 7: You know that's illegal, Sarah.
Speaker 9: I just want to teach Hetty how to read the Bible.
Speaker 7: But that is against the law. You disappoint me, my daughter.
Speaker 7: Your disobedience will have grave consequences. Sarah. I am an
Speaker 7: attorney and a judge, and you, my daughter, flout the
Speaker 7: law under my own roof. My life's work has been
Speaker 7: to compile the laws of South Carolina, and you have
Speaker 7: knowingly broken those very laws. Don't you know that if
Speaker 7: anyone were to find out that you have been teaching
Speaker 7: your slave to read, our family would be fined one
Speaker 7: hundred dollars. Father, No, you listen to me, young lady.
Speaker 7: Hetty is going to be severely punished, and if I
Speaker 7: ever see her reading again, I will have her whipped.
Speaker 9: Father.
Speaker 6: No, No, I couldn't bear the thought of Hetty being whipped.
Speaker 6: But I also couldn't bear the thought of her and
Speaker 6: in her reading lessons. What a quandary. Tragically, however, the
Speaker 6: problem was solved for me. Shortly after our reading lessons
Speaker 6: were discovered, Hetty got sick and died. I was inconsolable.
Speaker 7: Sarah, Sarah, I am sorry about Hetty, but.
Speaker 9: She was just a slave.
Speaker 7: Come, I'll give you another girl to take her place.
Speaker 9: No, I'll never have a slave again.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Sarah. Look at that sunshine. Come now, it's
Speaker 7: been weeks since your slave died, and I Missy in
Speaker 7: your lovely smile. But I think I have a way
Speaker 7: to bring your smile back. I have a surprise for you.
Speaker 9: I told you before, I don't want another slave.
Speaker 7: Come and see this surprise is not a slave.
Speaker 9: It isn't what is it then?
Speaker 7: Just come along meet your baby, sister, Angelina. I know
Speaker 7: you've been eager for our baby's arrival, and she was
Speaker 7: born last night.
Speaker 9: She's so beautiful, just like her mother, and she has
Speaker 9: such tiny fingers and tiny toes. Can I be her godmother? Please?
Speaker 7: We'll see.
Speaker 6: After much begging, father and mother agreed to let me
Speaker 6: be your godmother. I took the responsibility very seriously and
Speaker 6: prayed to God, asking that he make me worthy of
Speaker 6: the tame as I resolved to raise you to be
Speaker 6: a woman of integrity. And look at you now, you
Speaker 6: are getting ready to speak to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Speaker 9: I am so proud of you, my beautiful Nina.
Speaker 1: Oh Sarah, I am who I am because of you.
Speaker 1: From my whole life. You have modeled the courage to
Speaker 1: do what is right, even to the point of breaking
Speaker 1: the law. Your character reminds me of Queen Esther.
Speaker 6: I remind you of Queen Esther.
Speaker 1: Yes. In fact, tomorrow, when I'm speaking to the Legislature,
Speaker 1: I will draw parallels between our mission of life and
Speaker 1: love and that of Esther. We are also trying to
Speaker 1: save a race of people.
Speaker 5: That is true.
Speaker 1: And now, my dear sister, I shall leave you to
Speaker 1: rest and recover. You have given me the courage I
Speaker 1: need to face tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Despite Angelina Grimkey's positive words, she was terrified as she
Speaker 4: walked to the State House the following morning on February
Speaker 4: twenty one, eighteen thirty eight. Angelina and her sister had
Speaker 4: already visited sixty seven New England towns to give parlor
Speaker 4: talks and addressed over forty thousand people, but her heart
Speaker 4: hammered in her chest as she saw the crowds heading
Speaker 4: to the State House to hear her speak.
Speaker 13: You mind, it looks like everyone in Boston is coming
Speaker 13: to hear the Grimkey sisters. I heard the people started
Speaker 13: arriving two hours ago.
Speaker 14: Well, it is the first time in our country's history
Speaker 14: that a woman will speak to a state legislature.
Speaker 1: Quite momentous, and.
Speaker 13: I'm eager to witness the grand event me too.
Speaker 14: Who just look at all the people gathered around the
Speaker 14: State House building.
Speaker 7: It's doubtful we'll get a seat.
Speaker 13: I'm willing to stand in the back as long as
Speaker 13: I can hear the speech.
Speaker 5: That's the spirit.
Speaker 14: Oh, I see one of the Grimkey sisters walking toward us. Angelina,
Speaker 14: I recognize her from the parlor talk I attended.
Speaker 13: She looks nice. I wonder why the Daily Press nicknamed
Speaker 13: her Devilina?
Speaker 15: Where's that Devilina?
Speaker 14: Woo, sir, why don't you like Angelina Grimkey?
Speaker 15: Women have no mind for politics.
Speaker 5: Excuse me?
Speaker 15: The gentler sex belongs in the sphere of her home.
Speaker 15: There is no place for her in the political arena.
Speaker 15: But there's only one reason those disreputable Grimkey sisters will
Speaker 15: parade themselves in front of the legislature to catch themselves
Speaker 15: our husband.
Speaker 14: The Grimkey sisters have the support of the Anti Slavery Society.
Speaker 14: Society members have traveled to Boston, all the way from
Speaker 14: Springfield and Worcester to hear them speak today.
Speaker 12: Ah prah, missus Grimkey has a ryd ye.
Speaker 9: Excuse me, Will you let me through? Make way for mister.
Speaker 4: The State House was packed. Legislators sat in their reserved
Speaker 4: seats on the floor, while Anti Slavery Society members and
Speaker 4: curious onlookers filled the gallery and lined the back walls.
Speaker 4: The chatter of the boisterous crowds suddenly hushed as Angelina
Speaker 4: Grimkey entered the room.
Speaker 12: As Chairman of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. I would
Speaker 12: like to welcome Angelina Grimkey to the floor. Here, my dear,
Speaker 12: you will be best seen and heard from my spots.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 5: I'm so nervous, like cold faint.
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, give me.
Speaker 16: Strength, mister chairman, I stand before you as a Southerner,
Speaker 16: exiled from the land of my birth by the sound
Speaker 16: of the lash and.
Speaker 1: The piteous cry of the slave.
Speaker 16: I stand before you you as a moral being, and
Speaker 16: as a moral being, I feel that I owe it
Speaker 16: to the suffering slave, and to the deluded master, to
Speaker 16: my country and the world, to do all that I
Speaker 16: can to overturn a system of complicated crimes built upon
Speaker 16: the broken hearts and the prostrate bodies of my countrymen
Speaker 16: in chains. I stand before you as a citizen on
Speaker 16: behalf of the twenty thousand women of Massachusetts whose names
Speaker 16: are enrolled on petitions which have been submitted to the Legislature.
Speaker 16: Man who was created in the image of his maker
Speaker 16: never can.
Speaker 1: Properly be termed a thing man, I assert, never was.
Speaker 16: Put under the feet of men by the first Charter
Speaker 16: of human Rights, which was given by God.
Speaker 4: Angelina Grimkey spoke to the Massachusetts Legislature for two hours.
Speaker 4: Her compelling first hand accounts of slavery gripped all those listening.
Speaker 4: The Chairman of the House of Representatives was so moved
Speaker 4: by her speech that tears shone in his eyes as
Speaker 4: he welcomed Angelina to return to the State House in
Speaker 4: a couple of days to present a closing argument. No
Speaker 4: one was happier to hear of Angelina's success than Sarah.
Speaker 4: Together the sisters Grimkey rejoiced in the knowledge that they
Speaker 4: had bravely stood for what was right and.
Speaker 3: Just what an inspiring story, Aunt Nikki, and you know,
Speaker 3: the society of friends in the story sounds a bit
Speaker 3: familiar to me.
Speaker 2: You have a good memory, Uncle John. In the past,
Speaker 2: we've presented a couple of stories about people who were
Speaker 2: part of the society of Friends, or some times known
Speaker 2: as Quaker's. In fact, one of the stories is about
Speaker 2: a woman who was a good friend of Sarah and
Speaker 2: Angelina Grimkey. Really who Lucretia mott Ah, Yes.
Speaker 3: I remember her. She's the woman who boycotted goods that
Speaker 3: were produced with cotton or sugar that came from slave
Speaker 3: labor exactly.
Speaker 2: She may have even been the one to inspire Angelina
Speaker 2: Grimkey to do the same thing. In fact, Angelina was
Speaker 2: married just three months after she spoke to the Massachusetts
Speaker 2: House of Representatives, and she made sure that her wedding
Speaker 2: cake did not contain sugar produced by slaves.
Speaker 3: What a woman of character.
Speaker 2: And boys and girls, we have many other exciting stories
Speaker 2: of people who have made a difference in our world.
Speaker 3: You can find them right on our website at your
Speaker 3: story hour doorg. But until next time, goodbye, and remember
Speaker 3: we love you very much.