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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Written by Kerri K. Greenidge
Narrated by Karen Chilton
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A stunning counternarrative of the legendary abolitionist Grimke sisters that finally reclaims the forgotten Black members of their family.
The Grimke sisters, Sarah and Angelina, have been highly revered figures in American history, lauded for leaving behind their lives as elite, slave-owning women on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand abolitionists in the North. Yet the focus on their story has obscured the experiences of their Black relatives, the progeny of their brother, Henry, and one of the enslaved people he owned, a woman named Nancy Weston. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri K. Greenidge recovers the larger Grimke clan, demonstrating that the Black Grimke women—including Angelina Weld Grimke and Charlotte Forten—created a vast network of friends, kin, and lovers as they reimagined Blackness and womanhood in terms far more radical than their white relatives would have allowed. A stunning counternarrative, The Grimkes shows that, just as the Hemingses and Jeffersons personified the racial myths of America’s founding generation, the Grimkes embodied the legacy—both traumatic and generative—of those myths.
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Historian Greenidge follows two sides of the Grimke family, including sisters and suffragettes Sarah and Angelina but also their sadistic brother, Henry, who fathered several children with a Black woman he enslaved. Greenidge reveals the prevalent racism on both sides of the Grimke family, offering accuracy in a previously white-washed story of American history.
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