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Charlotte Forten Grimké
American anti-slavery activist, poet and educator (1837–1914)
Charlotte Louise Bridges Grimké (née Forten; August 17, 1837 – July 23, 1914) was an African-Americananti-slavery activist, poet, and educator.
She grew up in a prominent abolitionist family in Philadelphia.
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She taught school for years, including during the Civil War, to freedmen in South Carolina. Later in life, she married Francis James Grimké, a Presbyterian minister who led a major church in Washington, DC, for decades. He was a nephew of the abolitionist Grimké sisters and was active in civil rights.
Her diaries written before the end of the Civil War have been published in numerous editions in the 20th century and are significant as a rare record of the life of a free black woman in the antebellum North.[1]
Early life and education
Forten, known as "Lottie," was born on August 17, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Mary Virginia Wood (1815–1840) and Robert Bridges F
