ABSTRACT
A striking effect of the revivalism of the 1820s and 1830s was to involve women, whose souls were deemed as susceptible to conversion as were men's, in public testimony and activity at religious meetings in the presence of both men and women. Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-95), a convert of Finney and powerful abolitionist organiser in the 1830s and early 1840s, understood the implications of revivalism for women's rights more generally. However, he believed that his fellow abolitionists, the Grimké sisters who were originally from South Carolina, Sarah (1792-1873), and his future wife Angelina (1805-1879), should allow the logic of equality at the heart of revivalism to express itself and this, rather than the explicit advocacy of the sisters, would advance rights for women
