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Angelina Grimke Weld Summary

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The lives and times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis and Julia Dent Grant. Powerful and sometimes heart tugging accounts based on their letters, speeches and journal entries. These women were ahead of their time. A time when women were supposed to only act as wife, mother and manger of the household. These women all were married to powerful men and handled marriage in different ways, while struggling internally with the abolition question and women 's rights. There 's little discussion of the war it 's self simply that these women residence of this era. The most fascinating biography of this book was of Angelina Grimke and her sister Sarah. Angelina Grimke 's story is one that needs to be read by anyone interested in the

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