Lift Up Thy Voice: The Sarah and Angelina Grimké Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights LeadersIn the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their elite position as daughters of a prominent white slaveholding family in Charleston, South Carolina, for a life dedicated to abolitionism and advocacy of women's rights in the North. After the Civil War, discovering that their late brother had had children with one of his slaves, the Grimké sisters helped to educate their nephews and gave them the means to start a new life in postbellum America. The nephews, Archibald and Francis, went on to become well-known African American activists in the burgeoning civil rights movement and the founding of the NAACP. Spanning 150 eventful years, this is an inspiring tale of a remarkable family that transformed itself and America. |
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User Review - sallylou61 - LibraryThingLift Up Thy Voice: the Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders by Mark Perry is both a biography of the reformers in the Grimke family and a history of the antislavery ... Read full review
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User Review - KirkusA finely rendered portrait of two Southern abolitionists and civil-rights activists, and of the time in which they lived.Journalist Perry (Conceived in Liberty, 1997, etc.) traces the evolution of the ... Read full review
Contents
we defied the law of South Carolina | 1 |
They shall be your bondmen for ever | 11 |
a stern and relentless God | 35 |
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| Title | Lift Up Thy Voice: The Sarah and Angelina Grimké Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders |
| Author | Mark Perry |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Publishing Group, 2002 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | Aug 13, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0142001031, 9780142001035 |
| Length | 432 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General Biography & Autobiography / General History / United States / General Social Science / Discrimination Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies |
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