Grimké family. - Lift up thy voice: the Grimké familys journey from slaveholders to civil rights leaders

In Lift Up Thy Voice Mark Perry has provided a panoramic sketch of the most turbulent period of American history. In reading this book we see moving before our very eyes how one family made the transition from slave owners to freedom fighters; from southerners to Yankees; from white to black. My studentsblack and white, undergrads and grads, female and malewill embrace this book... which, though crammed full of history and facts, reads like a Toni Morrison novel.

Andrew Billingsley, University of South Carolina

Perry offers the fascinating family history of the Grimks and the quintessential American racial pathologies that most slaveholders would have denied but which the Grimks faced head-on.... An absorbing look at Americas seminal reform movement and the fascinating family that led the struggle.

Booklist

The historical background is deftly handled; while clarifying policies, people, organizations and ideas, Perry never loses sight of his primary subjects. The Grimks personal struggles and their public and published works hold the center to make this book eminently readable.

Publishers Weekly

Mark Perry is the author of Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War, a main selection of the History Book Club now available from Penguin, and three other books. An award-winning writer, he has written on history, the Middle East conflict, and American foreign policy for numerous magazines and newspapers. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

L IFT U P
T HY
V OICE

The Sarah and Angelina Grimk Familys Journey
from Slaveholders
to Civil Rights Leaders

MARK PERRY

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THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS :

Perry, Mark.

Lift up thy voice : the Grimk familys journey from

slaveholders to civil rights leaders / Mark Perry.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN: 978-1-101-66239-7

1. Racially mixed peopleUnited StatesBiography. 2. Grimk family. 3. AbolitionistsUnited StatesBiography. 4. Social reformersUnited StatesBiography.

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E185.98.A1 P47 2001

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