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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family | Kerri K. Greenidge
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Publishers Weekly � 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 New York Times � "15 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Fall", Best Books of November 2022 Boston Globe � "20 New Books We're Most Excited to Read This Fall" A stunning counternarrative of the (…more)
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JenniferEgnor
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A challenging read, written in great detail like a text from university. I am from Charleston and I never knew the Grimke story until now. The house still stands and you can tour it. But do they talk about the horrors that went on inside it? There were some very dark parts in this book, as is anything truthfully told about slavery. The Grimke family were an elite, wealthy family who owned multiple plantations and hundreds of slaves. The⬇️

JenniferEgnor two sisters had a distaste for it and eventually left for PA, later becoming abolitionists. However, their activism was problematic. They still viewed Black people as ‘less than‘, and were silent as PA Hall burned in 1834; they also didn‘t acknowledge their own complicity, or their family‘s, in the system of oppression. Their family contained white, Black, and passing, as many families did. An important, historical read that we can take ⬇️ 5mo
JenniferEgnor much from today, as many of these white savior attitudes still exist. 5mo
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Did you know that PA had a ‘gradual‘ abolition law in 1780? It was approved by the legislature only after Quaker leaders heeded the appeals of wealthy slaveholders and merchants who feared the economic and racial consequences of immediate emancipation. It gave ‘freedom‘ to enslaved children born after 1780 but required them to serve former masters for 28 years…

Suet624 Wow. 5mo
JenniferEgnor @Suet624 some freedom huh…🧐🤔 (edited) 5mo
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JenniferP
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Eye opening book that delves beneath the narrative of the famous abolitionist Grimke sisters to explore their entire family, including the Black cousins their brother fathered with one of the women he enslaved. Highly recommended!

SamAnne There was a really good review in the NYT over the week-end. (edited) 2y
JenniferP @SamAnne Off to read it! 2y
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On a warm and breezy night in August 1834, a group of white men, nearly one hundred strong, gathered on Seventh Street, between Shippen and Fitzwater, in Philadelphia.

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