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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

byKerri Greenidge

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. Using biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, The Grimkes moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing The Grimkes within biography & autobiography and history, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. The Grimkes emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781324090847