Pastor and Activist
Francis Grimké was born in 1850, enslaved on a plantation simply exterior of Charleston, South Carolina, and he spent his childhood residing there, but additionally along with his mom, Nancy Weston, within the metropolis of Charleston. After the Civil Warfare, he was freed and shortly recognized as a very good scholar, and they also despatched him to pursue his training at Lincoln College, the place he ended up graduating as valedictorian of his class. From there, he thought-about a number of totally different choices, really, as to what his additional research and profession could be. He in the end ended up going to Princeton Seminary, which on the time was the place to go for those who wished to be a Presbyterian minister, which he more and more felt referred to as to be.
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