Soon they were thrilling packed halls and meeting-houses in different parts of the country, comprised of men and women.

The lesson which their triumph enforced of women's fitness to enact the role of principals in the conflict with slavery was not lost upon the sex.

Women went, saw, and conquered their prejudices against the idea of equality; likewise, many men.

The good seed of universal liberty and equality fell into fruitful soil and germinated in due time within the heart of the moral movement against slavery.
The more that Sarah and Angelina Grimke reflected upon the sorry position to which men had assigned women in Church and State the more keenly did they feel its injustice and degradation.

They beat with their revolutionary idea of equality against the iron bars of the cage-like sphere in which they were born, and within which they were doomed to live and die by the law of masculine might.