The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman’s Rights and Abolition

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The one Southern white women ever to grow to be leading abolitionists, Sarah and Angelina Grimké encountered many obstacles and leapt many hurdles in pursuing their anti-slavery work. Their greatest accomplishment used to be overcoming the ubiquitous prejudices of society in regard to ladies. Indeed, they were the first women to take to the public platform and the first to assert women’s rights. In The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina, Gerda Lerner, herself a leading historian and pioneer in women’s studies, tells the compelling history of these made up our minds sisters and the inroads they made for women and blacks alike. From their rich 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 on the podium and with the pen, Lerner illuminates the lasting contributions of the Grimké sisters, in addition to the necessary role played by women within the anti-slavery movement.

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