Instructor: Beverly Eggert, a retired Beaufort County English teacher, served as the featured lecturer and program director for the Beaufort County History Center/Beaufort County Library lecture series. She also served as the program director and lecturer for the Santa Elena History Center in Beaufort and was a lecturer for the South Carolina Humanities Festival. Description: Sarah and Angelina Grimke were abolitionist leaders and feminist pioneers. Born into a prominent slave holding family in Charleston, South Carolina, the sisters risked social exile to expose the horrors of slavery through firsthand accounts. Their early activism played a pivotal role in fighting for racial equality and women’s rights. The sisters became the first female agents of the American Anti-Slavery Society. These courageous sisters challenged the moral conscience of a divided nation and left an amazing legacy for us to admire.