Tag: Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery an Anti-Segregation Petitions

  • Nation & World

    The rule-breaking Sisters Grimke

    “Exiled by the sound of the lash” from the slaveholding state of South Carolina, the Grimké sisters came North before the Civil War with rule-breaking ideas on slavery’s wrongs and women’s rights. They represented an antebellum moment in which “women became political.”

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