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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Publishers Weekly • 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 New York Times • "15 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Fall", Best Books of November 2022 Boston Globe • "20 New Books We're Most Excited to Read This Fall" A stunning counternarrative of the legendary abolitionist Grimke sisters that finally reclaims the forgotten Black members of their family. 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. That the Grimke sisters had Black relatives in the first place was a consequence of slavery’s most horrific reality. Sarah and Angelina’s older brother, Henry, was notoriously violent and sadist
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- Author
- Kerri K. Greenidge
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781324090854
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Historical Fiction, Historical
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (98 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14