Men, brethren and fathers -- mothers, daughters and sisters, what came ye out for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? Is it curiosity merely, or a deep sympathy with the perishing slave, that has ...

The Grimkes, by Kerri K. Greenidge (Liveright). This multilayered history follows branches of a family of Southern slaveholders. On one side, there are the abolitionist sisters Angelina Grimke Weld ...

Angelina Weld Grimké, a journalist, teacher, playwright and poet born in Boston, used to write poems that hinted at her infatuation with women, leading scholars to believe that she was queer. It is ...

Tufts University historian Greenidge (Black Radical) delivers a revelatory study of the Grimke family and their complicated involvement in the fight for racial equality. Quaker sisters Sarah and ...

Speaking as a southern woman who had seen firsthand the "demoralizing influence" of slavery and its "destructiveness to human happiness," Angelina Grimké Weld gave an inspiring speech at Pennsylvania ...