Conclusion
Angelina Girmké’s life was determined to uphold the weaker people in society.
Her family influence and position in society while she was growing up gave her
the advantage of developing strong characteristics. Those characteristics helped
her in later life. She was not distracted from her ideas of reform. She
continued to carry them out regardless of the trials she had to overcome (Birney
72). She withstood ridicule for her choice of spiritual expression and
patronizing attitudes about her views on slavery. Her religious experience
taught her to seek God first and to question the authority that said, “This is
the way it is.” She was a woman of tremendous influence in history. She set
the stage for women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton. By pushing the boundaries of
people’s minds, she laid the foundation for women’s equality. She also
helped supply the voice for future civil rights leaders. She took a stand
against her way of life and declared that human bondage was not right. She
shouted to the world that humans are worth more than what they can earn in
money. She was one of the voices of black equality a hundred years before it was
publicly practiced. Her life was a turning point in the history of American
rights. Perhaps without Angelina Grimké another would have arose to take her
place. Or perhaps the road to human equality would still stretch before us
seventy-four years short of its present achievements.
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Last updated March 2, 2001