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Grimké, Charlotte L. Forten
August 17, 1837
July 22, 1914
Charlotte L. Forten Grimké, an abolitionist, teacher, and writer, was born into one of Philadelphia's leading African-American families.
Her grandfather, James Forten, was a well-to-do sail-maker and abolitionist.
Charlotte for ten grimke biography of martin
Her father, Robert Bridges Forten, maintained both the business and the abolitionism.
Charlotte Forten continued her family's traditions. As a teenager, having been sent to Salem, Massachusetts, for her education, she actively joined that community of radical abolitionists identified with William Lloyd Garrison.
She also entered enthusiastically into the literary and intellectual
life of nearby Boston, and even embarked on a literary career of her own. Some of her earliest poetry was published in antislavery journals during her student years.
And she began to keep a diary, published almost a century later, which remains one of the most valuable accounts of that era.
Completing her education, Forten bec