ABSTRACT
Sarah Grimk is the author of a number of short works of political thought, detailing what she takes to be the defects of the early American republic with regard to both its treatment of women and its treatment of slaves. Gerda Lerner and others who have written on Sarah Grimk have occasionally found the references to scripture difficult, but within the framework of post-Enlightenment thought it is no more difficult to tease out the relevant strands of Grimk's work than it is those of several other thinkers. If one part of the political world consists of matters of discussion undertaken in the public arena, then there is no question that Sarah was indeed a political figure. The somewhat under examined area with respect to today's thinking or nineteenth-century thinking, at the time of Grimki's those arguments surrounding personal and religious freedom may be used to abridge women's rights.
