![]() ![]() ![]() Angelina did no public speaking after her marriage, except for an address at Pennsylvania Hall (Philadelphia), which was destroyed by a mob immediately afterwards. They lived, with Sarah, at Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1838-1840, then on a farm at Belleville, New Jersey, and then conducted a school for black and white alike at Eagleswood, near Perth Amboy, New Jersey, from 1854 to 1864. In 1838 Angelina married Theodore Dwight, a reformer, abolition orator, and author of several anti-slavery books including The Bible against Slavery (1837), American Slavery as It Is (1839). Their speaking from public platforms resulted in a letter issued by some members of the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, calling on the clergy to close their churches to women exhorters Garrison denounced the attack on the Grimké sisters and Whittier ridiculed it in his poem “The Pastoral Letter.” ![]() By 1837, when they set to work in Massachusetts, they had to secure the use of large halls for their public addresses. In 1836, at the invitation of Elizur Wright, corresponding secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Angelina, accompanied by Sarah, began giving talks on slavery, first in private and then in public. ![]()
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