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The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family / Kerri K. Greenidge.
Van Pelt Library E185.98.A1 G74 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenidge, Kerri K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grimké family.
- Multiracial people--United States--Biography.
- Multiracial people.
- Abolitionists--United States--Biography.
- Abolitionists.
- Social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Social reformers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri Greenidge presents a parallel narrative, indeed a long-overdue corrective, shifting the focus from the white abolitionist sisters to the Black Grimkes and deepening our understanding of the long struggle for racial and gender equality"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I FORGETTING HOW TO WEEP, 1790
- 1840
- 1. Philadelphia, 1834
- 2. The Misses Grimke
- 3. The Fortens
- 4. Alliances
- pt. II THE BORDER OF OUR SEEING, 1840
- 1865
- 5. The Grimke-Welds
- 6. Nancy
- 7. Lottie
- 8. On the Sea Islands
- 9. The Noblest Blood of the South
- pt. III THEN AWAKENING
- -REMEMBRANCE, 1865
- 1930
- 10. Women's Rights
- 11. Archie, Frank, and John
- 11. The Pulse of the Colored Elite
- 13. Nana
- 14. Blessed Are the Barren.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-377) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Copy: Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection
- Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781324090847
- 1324090847
- OCLC:
- 1349339848
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