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The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family

Title
  1. The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family / Kerri K. Greenidge.
Published by
  1. New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
  2. ©2023
Author
  1. Greenidge, Kerri K.

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Description
  1. xxviii, 404 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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"--
Subject
  1. Social reformers
  2. Abolitionists
  3. Multiracial people > United States > Biography
  4. Black author
  5. Biographies
  6. United States
  7. Grimké family
  8. Social reformers > United States > Biography
  9. Abolitionists > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Sc E 23-339
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-377) and index.
Author
  1. Greenidge, Kerri K., author.
Title
  1. The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family / Kerri K. Greenidge.
Publisher
  1. New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Copyright date
  1. ©2023
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-377) and index.
Local note
  1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Local subject
  1. Black author.
ISBN
  1. 9781324090847 (hardcover)
  2. 1324090847 (hardcover)
Research call number
  1. Sc E 23-339
  2. JFE 23-257
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