Ruth+Smith

=My name is Gabrielle Anastasia Smith. I was born on January 15, 1804. I got married at the age of 18. My husband, Carlos died in the war. I have twins named Jeffro and Harold. I am an abolitionist and I am against slavery. I used to live in Charleston, South Carolina. But I had to move with my two kids because you couldn't live in South Carolina if you are against slavery. Angelina and Sarah Grimke are my two close friends who I have grown up with ever since I was a kid. William Lloyd Garrison is my godfather who has tooken care of me ever since I was seven years old because my mother and father died from sickness. = 

=A page from the journal =  Angelina Grimke Sarah Grimke

Growing up with Angelina and Sarah Grimke has influenced me to become an abolitionist. Angelina Grimke was born on February 20, 1806 Sarah Grimke was born on November 26, 1792. Angelina and Sarah Grimke are abolitionist. Which means they are both against slavery. Sarah Grimke became a member of the Society of friends in Philadelphia in 1821. Angelina grimke followed her sister footsteps and also joined the society of friends. In 1836, Angelina wrote an Appeal to the Christian Women of the South. It addressed the moral view against slavery. In 1837 she also wrote an Epistol to the clergy of the southern states. Angelina and Sarah Grimke joined the Anti Slavery Society and began preaching privately on how slavery should be abolished. In 1838, Angelina married Theodore Dwight Weld, and he was also an abolitionist. They all three joined together and wrote Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a thousand witnesses. Together these three abolitionist worked together to help abolish slavery. In my opinion I think that Angelina and Sarah Grimke were very important in history. I think they both helped influence a lot of abolitionist to help follow their paths of abolishing slavery. To me the two Grimke sister's were strong, determined, independent, and intelligent wemon. Angelina and Sarah Grimke made history.

== William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massasschusetts. He published several articles in 1826. The paper that William Lloyd Garrison published was failed so he took a position in being an assistant editor of the Genius of Universal Emanipation. This paper was published in Baltimore, Maryland by abolitionis Benjamin Lundy. After that paper had failed he created his own paper called The Liberator to educate people on slavery. He wanted to recruit new members to the aboliton movement. After fifty years of publishing his newspaper he stopped in 1865 after the adoption of the thirteenth Amendment to the United States constitution. It ended slavery.Some anti slavery leaders were law and as a result hellped in the underground railroad. ==