Lift Up Thy Voice
The Sarah and Angelina Grimké Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders
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- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2002
Summary
In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimke traded their elite position as daughters of a prominent white slaveholding family in Charleston, South Carolina, for a life dedicated to abolitionism and advocacy of women’s rights in the North. After the Civil War, discovering that their late brother had had children with one of his slaves, the Grimke sisters helped to educate their nephews and gave them the means to start a new life in postbellum America. The nephews, Archibald and Francis, went o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142001035 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0142001031 |
| Author: | Mark Perry |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2002 |
| Weight: | 365g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 23mm |
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* “A finely rendered portrait of two Southern abolitionist and civil-rights activists, and of the time in which they lived…. More than reporting the details of the Grimké sisters’ lives and deeds, interesting enough as they are, Perry offers a learned survey of American social history in the mid-19th century, providing a vivid account of the religious revival called the Second Great Awakening and connecting the quest of their contemporaries for earthly salvation to the sisters’ thwarted determination to lead lives of religious devotion…Engaging, intelligent, and likely to be of much interest to general readers, as well as of value in courses of American history, women’s studies, and African-American studies.—Kirkus, starred review
“The Grimkés’ personal struggles (the sisters’ search for religious fulfillment, the brothers’ pursuit of political satisfaction) and their published and unpublished works… hold the center to make this book eminently readable.”—Publishers Weekly
“We see in [the Grimkés’] troubles our own; in their triumphs our hope; and in their history, the history of our nation.”—LIFT UP THY VOICE, Prologue
About The Author
Mark Perry
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
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