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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).
_____. 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 abridgement 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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