THE EMANCIPATION OF ANGELINA GRIMKE.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1974]. Portrait Frontispiece. First Edition. Signed inscription from Lumpkin on the front endpaper: “With best wishes of the author, Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin.” Born to a wealthy slaveholding family in Charleston, SC, Grimke became a crusader for the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of women. This biography gives a careful analysis of the complicated relationships among the various members of the Grimke family and between Angelina and her husband, Theodore Weld of Boston. Uncommon to find an autographed copy! 8vo., red cloth in dust jacket; 265 pages. Item #58313
Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight with minor crease to front endpaper & ink name front pastedown); minor edgewear & soil d/j.
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