The Grimké Sisters From South Carolina : Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition

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.--book Jacket. Printed Speeches Of Angelina Grimke Weld -- Speech Before The Legislative Committee Of The Massachusetts Legislature, February 21, 1838 -- Speech In Pennsylvania Hall, May 16, 1838 -- Speech To The National Convention Of The Woman's -- Loyal National League, May 14, 1863 -- Address To The Soldiers Of Our Second Revolution -- Manuscript Essays Of Sarah Moore Grimke -- Sisters Of Charity -- A Problem Of Ascription By Gerda Lerner -- Marriage. Gerda Lerner. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [311]-356) And Index. "The only Southern white women ever to become leading abolitionists, Sarah and Angelina Grimke encountered many obstacles in pursuing their antislavery work. Their greatest accomplishment was in challenging the ubiquitous prejudices of society against women and African Americans. They were the first US-born white women to take to the public platform and the first to assert woman's rights.". "In The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, Gerda Lerner, herself a leading historian and pioneer in the study of Women's History, tells the story of these determined sisters and the contributions they made to the antislavery and woman's rights movements. From their wealthy upbringing in Charleston, South Carolina, the societal restraints that kept them from higher education, and their utter contempt of slavery, to their conversion to the Quaker religion, and monumental achievements at the podium and with the pen, Lerner illuminates the lasting contributions of the Grimke sisters, as well as the important role played by women in the antislavery movement."--BOOK JACKET. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Note on Usage 14 Introduction 16 THE GRIMKÉ SISTERS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA 22 Appendix 1 Printed Speeches of Angelina Grimké Weld 286 Speech before the Legislative Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, February 21, 1838 288 Speech in Pennsylvania Hall, May 16, 1838 291 Speech to the National Convention of the Woman's Loyal National League, May 14, 1863 296 Address to the Soldiers of Our Second Revolution 300 Appendix 2 Manuscript Essays of Sarah Moore Grimké 304 Sisters of Charity 306 A Problem of Ascription 318 Marriage 324 Notes 332 Bibliography 364 Index 378 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.