Lift Up Thy Voice: The Sarah and Angelina Grimké Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders - Softcover

Perry, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142001031 ISBN 13: 9780142001035

Publisher: Penguin USA, 2002

Synopsis

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2002-12-1 Pages: 406 Publisher: Penguin In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimk traded their eliteposition as daughters of a prominent white slaveholding family inCharleston. South Carolina. for a life dedicated to abolitionismand advocacy of womens rights in the North. After the Civil War. discovering that their late brother had had children with one ofhis slaves. the Grimk sisters helped to educate their nephews andgave them the means to start a new life in postbellum America. Thenephews. Archibald and Francis. went on to become well-knownAfrican American activists in the burgeoning civil rights movementand the founding of the NAACP. Spanning 150 eventful years. this isan inspiring tale of a remarkable family that transformed itselfand America.

About this title

Product Description:

Part social history, part family biography, a fascinating true account details the lives of Sarah and Angelina GrimkT, who, in the late 1820s, renounced their elite social position and became advocates of women's rights and leaders in the anti-slavery movement, forever changing the course of history. Reprint.

About the Author:

Mark Perry’s books include Conceived in Liberty, a main selection of the History Book Club. An award-winning writer, he has written on history, the Middle East conflict, and American foreign policy for numerous magazines and newspapers.

PRAISE FOR MARK PERRY:

“Mark Perry...has made their dual biography the basis for an ambitious book, a history of the North and South from before the war to the end of Reconstruction. That he succeeds so well is remarkable.”
- The New York Times Book Review

“A thoughtful, moving, and wonderfully readable account of two valiant men, the war that brought them together, and the ideologies that ultimately kept them apart.”
- Cleveland Plain Dealer

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin USA
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0142001031
• ISBN 13: 9780142001035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432