According to the text, "Abolitionism was born from a deep religious belief that slaveholding was a sin that the truly God-fearing had l 'obligation to eliminate'. (DuBois, 2012, p. 268). In 1936, the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society implored that every woman in the country should perform the duty of a Christian woman, and the result cannot fail to be immediate, peaceful, and unconditional liberation. Unlike any movement seen before, women alongside men would unite in open conflict with America's core political and religious institutions. Sarah and Angelina Grimke became the leaders of the movement. They gave many speeches to men and women about the issue and even found themselves condemned by the church for their actions. The need for change was growing due to the overwhelming sense of the abolition of slavery and a role for women. In the 1840s, many leaders in the abolitionist movement moved to seek not only freedom from slavery but for the future of women as a whole. The Grimkes' defense of their equal right to defend slaves brought many women into the women's rights movement. Women abolitionists faced discrimination within the movement, this then led to the need for a women's rights movement. Pushback also occurred when women who supported the abolition of slavery were treated the same as those pursued by white religious women and men who viewed their views as wrong. A change was needed and