On this day, February 27, in 1880

Writer and poet Angelina Weld Grimke was born to a white mother and a black father. Due to racial tensions Grimke's mother left their family, and from the time that Angelina was 7 years old, she was raised by her father and his family in Boston. Throughout her life, Angelina Grimke published many literary pieces from poetry to short stories. A lot of Grimke's work is based on her experience as a biracial woman in America, and also on the isolation she felt as a lesbian woman in the late 1800's.