Learn about Angelina Grimké, the daughter of South Carolina slaveholders who devoted her life to ending slavery and winning equal rights for women in this video from The Abolitionists | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Grimké and her sister Sarah drew upon their strong religious beliefs from an early age to oppose slavery in their native state and throughout the United States. After moving north, they became prominent writers and speakers in both the abolitionist movement and the struggle to obtain equal rights for women.