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Grimke Sisters: The First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights

by Catherine H. Birney

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Sarah and Angelina Grimke were in the vanguard of both the American anti-slavery and woman's rights movements. To them must be accorded the credit of first making the woman's quest an issue of reform.

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People/Characters: Angelina Grimké; Sarah Grimké

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Languages: English
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Published: 1970
Genres: Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, Sociology
DDC/MDS: 326.0922
LCC: E449 .G88

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Catherine H. Birney

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