Letters to Catherine E. Beecher, In Reply to An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, Addressed to A. E. Grimke

Angelina Emily Grimke; Catharine Esther Beecher

Boston, Printed by Isaac Knapp, 1838

[Powerful women and dangerous women: Early Abolitionist works] Bound in contemporary boards. Yellow printed title label on front board. Rebacked, with renewed spine. Housed in custom clam shell case. Library markings. Intermittent water stain (generally faint).  130 pp.  

"First edition of the third work in a series of literary exchanges between Beecher and Grimke that began in 1836 with Grimke's Appeal to Christian Women of the South. This was followed by Beecher's Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females (1837), in turn followed by the present work by Grimke. Although born into the Southern elite of South Carolina, Angelina Grimke (1805-1879) spent most of her life in the North advocating for the abolition of slavery and women's rights. Catherine Beecher was an educator and shared similar views." - Swann Galleries, Sale 2377, Lot 59, March 26, 2015.  Angela Grimke and her sister Sarah Moore were highly unusual women for their era.  They converted to Quakerism and advocated not only the emancipation of slaves, but also racial and gender equality.  Quite radical for a southern woman in the 1830s.