The Grimke Sisters

In “The Grimke sisters from South Carolina, the author empathizes the history of two women who are pioneers for women’s rights and abolition. The author beings by telling a story about Angelina Grimke and Sarah Grimke and explores the two women’s lives together on how women were trying to become free. The author explores the lives of Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld explaining the things these women went through to become free. The authors main points in this book was the things these women had to go through as a slave to become free and equal.
One example that the author uses to support her thesis is when she starts out by explaining the different things that Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke experienced during their childhood as slavery …show more content…
I like how at the beginning it starts out giving a little background of who the Grimke sisters are and a bit of history about them as well. I liked how it was wrote in a diary format, but everything was still explained through the book. I really loved and could tell that everything that was explained throughout the book was explained in order. Throughout the book, it talked about many things we have discussed and talked about in class such as the cotton gin. In the book, it mentions that during Sarah’s childhood, the cotton gin had effected a transformation in Southern Agriculture. Cotton production was becoming more and more profile able and Judge Grimke had to expand his cotton lands due to the cotton production. Overall, I really thought this was a very informative book and I was able to learn more about who the Grimke Sisters were and what they did. Lastly, I enjoyed reading this book and I like how organized the information was and it was very easy to follow alone and keep …show more content…
In the Stone rebellion, the slaves had no chance of overturning slavery and they had very little chance of defending themselves. In the Grimke sister book, it talks a lot about how the girls could not defend themselves and when they did try to defend them self’s they went through a lot of attacks and were talked down on a lot. Both topics tie in together because even though in the text book it talks about the southern planters, in the Grimke Sister book, slavery was a really had thing to overcome. It took a lot for the girls to get to where they needed to be, but they made it