Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE GRIMKE SISTERS SARAH AND ANGELINA GRIMKE _THE FIRST AMERICAN WOMEN ADVOCATES OF ABOLITION AND WOMAN’S RIGHTS_ By CATHERINE H. BIRNEY “The glory of all glories is the glory of self-sacrifice.” 1885 PREFACE. It was with great diffidence, from inexperience in literary work of such