Archibald Grimke: 8 books
by Catherine H. Birney, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Archibald Grimke
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
A Grimké Reader provides an excellent introduction to the writings and heroics of this influential family of Massachusetts Abolitionists. The sisters, Sarah and Angelina, are, perhaps, the most famous members of this family. Some of the most important writings, speeches, and actions of...
by Archibald H. Grimke
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. The Father of the Man
CHAPTER II. The Man Hears a Voice: Samuel, Samuel!
CHAPTER III. The Man Begins his Ministry
CHAPTER IV. The Hour and the Man
CHAPTER V. The Day of Small Things
CHAPTER VI . The Heavy World is Moved
CHAPTER...
by Archibald Henry Grimke
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Every time a great man comes on the stage of human affairs, the fable of the Hercules repeats itself. He gets a sword from Mercury, a bow from Apollo, a breastplate from Vulcan, a robe from Minerva. Many streams from many sources bring to him their united strength. How else could the great man be equal...
by Archibald Henry Grimke
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
It is the fashion nowadays for every one with a stone in his hand to take a shy at the poor Negro on account of his sins of commission and omission. It is enough that some member of the race is caught flagrante delicto or merely on suspicion of evil doing to get himself into the public pillory and the...
by Archibald Henry Grimke
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
He was black but comely. Nature gave him a royal body, nobly planned and proportioned, and noted for its great strength. There was that in his countenance, which bespoke a mind within to match that body, a mind of uncommon native intelligence, force of will, and capacity to dominate others. His manners...
by Archibald Henry Grimke
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
What is that tremendous system of production, organization and struggle known as modern industrialism going to do with the Negroes of the United States? Passing into its huge hopper and between its upper and nether millstones, are they to come out grist for the nation, or mere chaff, doomed like the...
by Archibald Henry Grimke
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The legal status of the Negro in the United States is difficult to define or describe, because on paper he is an American citizen, entitled to the rights of an American citizen, but in practice he does not get what he is entitled to or anything like it in certain parts of the Republic. His life is safe-guarded...
by Archibald Henry Grimke
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, December 10, 1805. Forty years before, Daniel Palmer, his great-grandfather, emigrated from Massachusetts and settled with three sons and a daughter on the St. John River, in Nova Scotia. The daughter's name was Mary, and it was she who was...