Charlotte for ten grimke biography of barack

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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 Forten, class of 1856, was Salem State's first African American graduate.

Charlotte Forten Grimké was an African American teacher, author, abolitionist and suffragist.

Charlotte Forten Grimke, American abolitionist and educator best known for the five volumes of diaries she wrote in 1854–64 and 1885–92.

Charlotte Forten Grimké grew up in a rich intellectual and activist environment.

Charlotte Forten was born in 1837 in Philadelphia into a prominent free black family.

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 became a te