Event Lectures and Symposia Live! at the Library: An Evening with Kerri Greenidge

Date and Location

Part of Black History Month ; Live at the Library

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The Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, will be in conversation with Kerri Greenidge, leading historian about her new book: “The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family.”

Sarah and Angelina Grimke—the Grimke sisters—are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri Greenidge presents a long-overdue corrective, shifting the focus from the white abolitionist sisters to the Black Grimkes, thereby deepening our understanding of the long struggle for racial and gender equality.

Between 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., view a selection of materials related to the Grimke family held by the Library’s Manuscript Division in room LJ-113.