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Abolitionist movement

Her novel helped to end slavery and proved that Lincoln was right when he said, “Whoever can change public opinion can change the government.”

In what many consider the greatest anti-slavery oration ever given, Frederick Douglass called for “the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake”

The Grimké sisters forsook their heritage to fight for abolition. Then, many years later, their brother’s terrible sin came back to haunt them.

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