Appeal to the Christian Women of the South Literary Elements

Political writing

1836, the South, in the early days of the Abolitionist movement

Angelina Grimke is the writer of the appeal and therefore the speaker and writes from her own point of view.

Urging, urgent, logical, persuasive, angry

Christian women are the protagonists, slavery, and the rights that are not afforded to women the antagonistic elements of the pamphlet

There is conflict outlined in the pamphlet in that Grimke acknowledges the opposition to her Abolitionist views.

Grimke urges education and states that any slaves remaining in the employ of her fellow Southern women should receive education.

Grimke states that if women look to their Christian faith they will find that slavery is wrong and join her in her Abolitionist movement; however, her support of an end to slavery in the place from which she hails foreshadows the pamphlet's terrible reception and that fact that it was publicly burned.

Grimke acknowledges that women have no real power to bring about change which is an understatement in that women had no voting rights at all and were considered the property of their husbands.

Grimke alludes to verses in the Bible that suggest Jesus was wholly opposed to slavery.

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Grimke is asking women to be the catalysts for change whilst at the same time acknowledging that, like slaves, they also have no actual tangible power to do so.

There is a parallel between the Abolitionist movement and the Suffrage movement; Angelina was involved with both.

"Women of the South" is the phrase used to describe an entire demographic yet the author seems to be addressing one woman in her writing directly.

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