 | The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women''s Rights and Abolition Subjects: Grimké Angelina Emily 1805–1879; Grimké Sarah Moore 1792–1873; Women abolitionists -- South Carolina -- Biography; Feminists -- South Carolina -- Biography; Sisters -- South Carolina -- Biography; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 1; A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner reinterprets her own work nearly forty years later and gives new recognition to the major significance of Sarah Grimke's feminist writings. |
