Aug 3
16 min read
wPart Two — A biography essay
Sarah Moore Grimké
Abolitionist, Gender and Racial Equality Activist
Some family background
The Hon. John Fauchereau Grimké was the son of a German father and French mother. The Hugenot Fauchereau family of his mother left France after the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He had studied law at Oxford and was a respected lawyer in London aristocratic circles. But, when the Revolution began, he hurried to return to South Carolina where he led a company of calvary…
