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The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family / Kerri K. Greenidge.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781324090847
  • ISBN: 1324090847
  • Physical Description: xxviii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-377) and index.
Subject: Grimké family.
Racially mixed people > United States > Biography.
Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Social reformers > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 23 of 25 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Albright Memorial Library 920 GREENID (Text) 50686016245909 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library B GRI (Text) 37268003154523 AHMFL Biography Available -
Boyertown Community Library 973.7114 GRE (Text) 33249024850657 Non-fiction Available -
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Coudersport Public Library 973.5092 GRE (Text) 30183000966414 Adult Nonfiction Checked Out 04/06/2024
Exeter Community Library 973.7114 GRE (Text) 33249025512900 Non-fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library 973.5 GREENRIDGE (Text)
Endowment: Robert D. Fidler Named Endowment, 2022
35740635902364 Nonfiction Available -
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) 920 GRE (Text) 92525962 GFWM Main Room Available -
Guthrie Memorial Library: Hanover's Public Library Adults 973.5 GRE Nonfiction (Text)
Bookplate: Plated 2023: In Memory of Mary Furlong
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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"--

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