Angelina Grimke

by Todras, Ellen H.

• ISBN13: 9780208024855
• ISBN10: 0208024859
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Linnet Books

Summary

A handsome biography of the woman, born in Charleston in 1805, who became an outspoken foe of slavery & left the South for New England to work for the abolition of slavery & for women's rights.

Table of Contents

Ackowledgments	p. ix
Author's Note	p. xi
Braving the Mob	p. 1
Two Kinds of Education	p. 8
Angelina's Awakening	p. 22
"Be Still"	p. 35
A Cause Worth Dying For	p. 44
Abolition Women	p. 57
Angelina or Devilina?	p. 73
Love ...	p. 90
... And Marriage	p. 106
And the War Came	p. 121
Confronting the Past	p. 137
Appendix
Angelina Grimke Weld's Speech, Pennsylvania Hall, May 16, 1838	p. 151
Letter from Ex-Slave Hester Snowden, May 6, 1831	p. 157
Letter from Angelina Grimke to William Lloyd Garrison, August 30, 1835	p. 159
Angelina Grimke's Speech Before the Legislative Committee of the Massachusetts State Legislature, February 21, 1838	p. 162
Time Line of Angelina Grimke's Life in American History	p. 165
Selected Bibliography	p. 169
Index	p. 173
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