In Lynn all barriers were broken down, and a modest, refined, and naturally diffident young woman found herself addressing immense audiences of men and women.

In the old theater in Boston for six nights in succession, audiences filling all the space listened entranced to the messenger of emancipation.

There is uniform testimony that, in an age distinguished for oratory, no more effective speaker appeared than Angelina Grimke.
It was she above all others who first vindicated the right of women to speak to men from the public platform on political topics.

But it must be remembered that scores of other women were laboring to the same end and were fully prepared to utilize the new opportunity.
The great world movement from slavery towards freedom, from despotism to democracy, is characterized by a tendency towards the equality of the sexes.

Women have been slaves where men were free.