pickA challenging read, written in great detail like a text from university. I am from Charleston and I never knew the Grimke story until now. The house still stands and you can tour it. But do they talk about the horrors that went on inside it? There were some very dark parts in this book, as is anything truthfully told about slavery. The Grimke family were an elite, wealthy family who owned multiple plantations and hundreds of slaves. The⬇️
JenniferEgnor two sisters had a distaste for it and eventually left for PA, later becoming abolitionists. However, their activism was problematic. They still viewed Black people as ‘less than‘, and were silent as PA Hall burned in 1834; they also didn‘t acknowledge their own complicity, or their family‘s, in the system of oppression. Their family contained white, Black, and passing, as many families did. An important, historical read that we can take ⬇️ 1w
JenniferEgnor much from today, as many of these white savior attitudes still exist. 1w
JenniferEgnor Further reading: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kerri-greenidge-the-grimkes/ 5d
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