The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

by Kerri K. Greenidge

Book Overview

The Grimke sisters, Sarah and Angelina, have been highly revered figures in American history, lauded for leaving behind their lives as elite, slave-owning women on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand abolitionists in the North. Yet the focus on their story has obscured the experiences of their Black relatives, the progeny of their brother, Henry, and one of the enslaved people he owned, a woman named Nancy Weston. In The Grimkes,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324090847
• ISBN13: 9781324090847
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"