Sisters Against Slavery: A Story about Sarah and Angelina Grimke

by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson

Book Overview

Sisters against Slavery recounts the lives of Sarah Grimke and Angelica Grimke Weld. These daughters of wealthy Southern planters and slave owners renounced slavery in the 1830's. Through their writings and through a series of lectures delivered in the North, the sisters became famous for their views on slavery and women's rights. Although the sisters were active as speakers and essayists for a relatively short time in the 1830s and 1840s, they reached...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575053616
• ISBN13: 9781575053615
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6