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Additional resources for this issue of History Now
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The Grimke Sisters
If you need brief biographical sketches of the Grimke
sisters online, go to these websites:
http://college.hmco.com/history/
readerscomp/rcah/html/
ah_038900_grimkangelin.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.
co.uk/USASgrimke.htm
You have a good choice of books about the Grimke sisters:
Browne, Stephen H. Angelina Grimke: Rhetoric, Identity,and
the Radical Imagination (East Lansing: Michigan State
University Press, 1999).
Durso, Pamela R. The Power of Woman: The Life and Writings
of Sarah Moore Grimke (Macon, GA: Mercer University
Press, 2003).
Lerner, Gerda. The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimke
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Lerner, Gerda. The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina:
Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition,revised
and expanded edition (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2004).
Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre. The Emancipation of Angelina
Grimke (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1974).
And there are also convenient modern editions of their
writings:
Barnes, Gilbert H., and Dwight L. Dumond, eds. Letters
of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimke Weld and Sarah
Grimke, 1822-1844 (New York: Appleton-Century, 1934).
Ceplair, Larry, ed. The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina
Grimke: Selected Writings, 1835-1839 (New York: Columbia
University Press,1989).
Grimke, Sarah Moore. Letters on the Equality of the
Sexes and Other Essays. Edited and with an introduction
by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1988).
If you want to explore the phenomenon of anti-abolitionist
riots in the 1830s, go to these books:
Feldberg, Michael. The Turbulent Era: Riot and Disorder
in Jacksonian America (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1980).
Grimsted, David. American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward
Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Slaughter, Thomas P. Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot
and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1991).
For Angelina's literary debate with Catherine Beecher,
try these books:
Boydston, Jeanne, Mary Kelley, and Anne Margolis. The
Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights
and Woman's Sphere (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1988).
Grimke, Angelina Emily. Letters to Catherine E. Beecher
(New York, Arno Press,1969).
For the full text of American Slavery As It Is,
go to the University of North Carolina's "Documenting
the American South" website:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/weld/menu.html
The University of Virginia website provides full texts
of Letters to Catherine Beecher as well as Grimke's
1836 Appeal to Christian Women of the South:
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/abolitn/grimkehp.html
Sklar, Kathryn Kish. Catharine Beecher: A Study in
American Domesticity (New York: Norton, 1976).
These websites offer full texts of additional Grimke documents:
For Angelina's speech to the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery
Convention, see:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2939t.html
And the "Sunshine for Women" site offers the full text
of Sarah's Letters on the Equality of the Sexes:
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/grimke3.html
Angelina Grimke's husband, Theodore Weld, is the subject
of two biographies that are worth reading:
Abzug, Robert H. Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight
Weld and the Dilemma of Reform (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1980).
Thomas, Benjamin Platt. Theodore Weld, Crusader for
Freedom (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
1950).
And you may want to consult this abridged version of the
Welds' American Slavery As It Is:
Curry, Richard O., and Joanna Dunlap Cowden Weld, eds.
Slavery in America: Theodore Weld's American Slavery
As It Is, abridged version (Itasca, IL: F. E. Peacock
Publishers, c1972).
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