[ABOLITION ? WOMEN?S RIGHTS]. GRIMK?, Sarah Moore (1792?1873) and Angelina (1805?1879). An Address to Free Colored Americans [and] An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States. New York: William S. Dorr, 1837. 2 stitched pamphlets, 8vo (32pp. and 68pp). (Spotting throughout). BOTH FIRST EDITIONS. In May 1837, the first Anti?Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City which consisted of one hundred and seventy?five women from ten different states and represented twenty female antislavery groups to discuss their role in the American abolition movement. The convention was significantly important to the women?s antislavery movement as it promoted increased interactions between black and white women, and also boosted an increase in women?s antislavery petitions which more than doubled in 1837. This convention was groundbreaking in that it was one of the first times women had met and spoke publicly at this scale and was likely the first major convention where women discussed women?s rights, in this case focusing on the rights of African American women. Not in Sabin or Howes.