Sarah Grimké publishes her Letters on the…

Sarah Grimké publishes her Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman in 1838; Angelina Emily Grimké publishes her Letters to Catherine Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism in the same year; these represent perhaps the first written advocacy for women's rights in the United States.

Upon Angelina’s marriage to abolitionist Theodore Weld in the same year, the sisters retire from the lecture circuit and concentrate on education.

Angelina had left Charleston at twenty-four to join her older sister Sarah in Philadelphia in 1829.

Beginning in 1836, the two had begun lecturing for the American Anti-Slavery Society, relating the abuses in a system that they had experienced firsthand, and attracting audiences numbering in the thousands.

Coming under fire for addressing audiences that included both sexes, the sisters had expanded their interests to include social justice for women.