The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimk�

by Charlotte L. Forten Grimkï, Brenda Stevenson (Editor)

Overview

These diaries recount the life of the scholar, reformer, teacher, and writer, Charlotte L. Forten Grimke (1873-1914). Born into an affluent and politically active black family, Charlotte Forten Grimke records in these diaries her privileged childhood years in Philadelphia and Salem, Massachusetts, her sporadic teaching career, her involvement with the antislavery movement, her eighteen months teaching the contraband slaves of the South Carolina Sea Islands during the Civil War, and her later work as a poet and essayist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195052381
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/14/1988
Series:	The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Pages:	672
Product dimensions:	8.72(w) x 5.73(h) x 1.85(d)

Editorial Reviews

"Charlotte Grimké [1837-1914] was such a keen observer and meticulous recorder of the events of her day, her journal survives as an important chronicle of one woman's struggles and accomplishments during this most important era in U.S. history."—Brenda Stevenson, in her Introduction

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