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Source: The Atlantic

11/8/2022

Review: Reevaluating the Grimke Sisters and White Abolitionism

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Kerri Greenidge's new history of the Grimke family of South Carolina shows that, while sisters Sarah and Angelina left the south to advocate abolition and feminism, the institution of slavery compromised all white people connected to it.

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Review: Reevaluating the Grimke Sisters and White Abolitionism

by Drew Gilpin Faust