Full Description
In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimké 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 Grimké 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 on to become well-known African American activists in the burgeoning civil rights movement and the founding of the NAACP. Spanning 150 eventful years, this is an inspiring tale of a remarkable family that transformed itself and America.
Contents
Lift Up Thy VoiceChronology
Major Characters
Prologue:
". . . we defied the law of South Carolina"
PART ONE: THE GRIMKÉ SISTERS
One:
"They shall be your bondmen for ever . . . "
Two:
". . . a stern and relentless God"
Three:
"He trod the pulpit like a giant . . . "
Four:
". . . and blood flowed in streams"
Five:
"The ground on which you stand is holy ground . . . "
PART TWO: THE GRIMKÉ FAMILY
Six:
". . . lift up thy voice like a trumpet . . . "
Seven:
". . . we will go and work together"
Eight:
"We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down . . ."
Nine:
". . . that great earthquake . . . "
Ten:
". . . go on! go on! . . . "
PART THREE: THE GRIMKÉ BROTHERS
Eleven:
"Everyone was for himself . . . "
Twelve:
". . . through the lonely dark . . . "
Thirteen:
"A cowardly and sinful silence . . . "
Fourteen:
". . . the means which God uses to arouse the sleeping conscience"
Fifteen:
"You hang him to a tree . . . "
Epilogue:
". . . the crisis has come . . . "
Author's Notes
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
