A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner reinterprets her own work nearly forty years later and gives new recognition to the major significance of Sarah Grimke's feminist writings.
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"[An] admirable and path-breaking study."
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This revised and expanded edition of Lerner's biography of Angelina and Sarah Grimke includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner reinterprets her own work nearly forty years later and gives new recognition to the major significance of Sarah Grimke's feminist writings.
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This review is from: The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's Rights and Abolition (Paperback)
I read an earlier (1970-something?) publication of this work, and really enjoyed it. The sisters were presented as powerful thinkers who struggled with the issues of their day. The title is right on, they were pioneers for women's rights, as well as influential abolitionists. I'm glad that they were presented as whole people, with doubts and questions and problems, too. It was an easy ready, but I didn't feel like the author was talking down to me. The book is highly recommended.
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The Grimke Sisters rather then the European-American settlers in the West were the true pioneers of 19th Century America. They were ahead of their peers in supporting reform causes such as Abolitionism, Women's Rights and opposing racial prejudice. The last one was especially significant since many white abolitionists were prejudiced toward blacks even though they opposed slavery.
What is especially remarkable about the Grimke Sisters is that they were among the very few white abolitionists who grew up in the Deep South. They were from South Carolina and their cousin was Robert Rhett the famous fire eater. The book examines how their religious beliefs shaped their political views and their involvement in factional struggles in the Quaker Church and the Abolition movement.
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The Grimke sisters were indeed gutsy; southern born women who rebelled against slavery and took to the northern hustings to make their case. Gerda Lerner has done a splendid job of mapping their story. Later I found they were not the only ones in the Grimke family to rebel against "that peculiar institution". Mark Perry's book Lift Up Thy Voice, should be a companion piece, because the sisters had two mulatto nephews they helped educate and who also became abolitionists.
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On Wednesday, February 21, 1838, starting about noon, people from all over Boston began arriving at the State House in carriages, by horseback and on foot. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antislavery agents, antislavery women, antislavery speakers, antislavery petitions, antislavery organization, antislavery struggle, antislavery literature, antislavery cause, antislavery society Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New England, American Anti-Slavery Society, South Carolina, United States, Theodore Weld, Gerrit Smith, The Liberator, Lucretia Mott, Pastoral Letter, Catherine Morris, Lewis Tappan, Abby Kelley, James Birney, New Jersey, Raritan Bay Union, Society of Friends, Elizur Wright, Israel Morris, Lucy Stone, Sarah Douglass, Catherine Beecher, Jane Smith, Anna Frost, Charles Stuart New!
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On Wednesday, February 21, 1838, starting about noon, people from all over Boston began arriving at the State House in carriages, by horseback and on foot. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antislavery agents, antislavery women, antislavery speakers, antislavery petitions, antislavery organization, antislavery struggle, antislavery literature, antislavery cause, antislavery society Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New England, American Anti-Slavery Society, South Carolina, United States, Theodore Weld, Gerrit Smith, The Liberator, Lucretia Mott, Pastoral Letter, Catherine Morris, Lewis Tappan, Abby Kelley, James Birney, New Jersey, Raritan Bay Union, Society of Friends, Elizur Wright, Israel Morris, Lucy Stone, Sarah Douglass, Catherine Beecher, Jane Smith, Anna Frost, Charles Stuart New!
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- History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton on 9 pages
- Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism (The Black heritage library collection) by Catharine Beecher on 5 pages
- Century of Struggle by Eleanor Flexner on 4 pages
- Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States (Black Heritage Library Collection Series) by N. Y.) Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women 1837 (New York on page 114, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Society in America (Social Science Classics Series) by Harriet Martineau on page 20, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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