The Grimke Family

Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) and her sister Angelina Grimke (1805-1879) were
the daughters of a prominent South Carolina slave-owner. As converts
to Quakerism, the sisters were deeply disturbed by slavery and moved North.
They became active in the abolition movement and were the first women to 
speak to "mixed" audiences of women and men. These brilliant speeches 
provoked the Massachusetts clergy into opposing women preachers and
reformers. The Grimkes, undaunted, were thus launched into the movement
for women's rights. They are primarily credited with linking the
Women's rights movement to the Anti-Slavery movement. Angelina married 
Theodore Weld, an abolitionist, in 1838, but did not promise "to obey". 
Weld also renounced his legal rights as husband to own and manage his
wife's property.