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Film, Video Kerri Greenidge on the Grimkes Family

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Title

  • Kerri Greenidge on the Grimkes Family

Summary

  • Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden talks with historian Kerri Greenidge about her new book, “The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family.” The Grimke sisters — Sarah and Angelina — are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In “The Grimkes,” Greenidge presents a long-overdue corrective, shifting the focus from the white abolitionist sisters to the Black Grimkes, thereby deepening our understanding of the long struggle for racial and gender equality.

Event Date

  • Thursday, February 22, 2024

Running Time

  • 1 hour, 1 minute, 10 seconds

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  • online text
  • video

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