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The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family

Title
The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family / Kerri K. Greenidge.
Author
Greenidge, Kerri K.
Publication
  • New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
  • ©2023

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Description
xxviii, 404 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
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"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-377) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The two nanas -- Part I: Forgetting how to weep, 1790-1840. Philadelphia, 1834 ; The misses Grimke ; The Fortens ; Alliances -- Part II: The border of our seeing, 1840-1865. The Grimke-Welds ; Nancy ; Lottie ; On the Sea Islands ; The noblest blood of the South -- Part III: Then awakening--remembrance, 1865-1930. Women's rights ; Archie, Frank, and John ; The pulse of the colored elite ; Nana ; Blessed are the barren -- Epilogue.
Call Number
Sc E 23-339
ISBN
  • 9781324090847
  • 1324090847
OCLC
  • 1349339848
  • 1349339848
Author
Greenidge, Kerri K., author.
Title
The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family / Kerri K. Greenidge.
Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-377) and index.
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc E 23-339
JFE 23-257
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