Lift Up Thy Voice - Sale

The Grimke Family's Journey From Slaveholders To Civil Rights Leaders

BY MARK PERRY

Brief Description:
"Sarah and Angelina Grimke were privileged [Quaker] white women from a powerful South Carolina slaveholding family who led the antislavery movement. Their nephews Archibald and Francis Grimke were former slaves who took the struggle into the twentieth century as the focus shifted to equal rights. Perry offers the fascinating family history of the Grimkes and the quintessential American racial pathologies that most slaveholders would have denied but which the Grimkes faced head-on. Using letters, speeches, diaries, and sermon s, Perry presents the personalities of messianic figures during a period of great religious and social foment."-Booklist

Penguin 2003 432 PP. Paper

$1.50 (in stock)