Lift Up Thy Voice
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PRAISE FOR MARK PERRY:
“Mark Perry…has made their dual biography the basis for an ambitious book, a history of the North and South from before the war to the end of Reconstruction. That he succeeds so well is remarkable.”
- The New York Times Book Review
“A thoughtful, moving, and wonderfully readable account of two valiant men, the war that brought them together, and the ideologies that ultimately kept them apart.”
- Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Prologue:
". . . we defied the law of South Carolina"
PART ONE: THE GRIMKÉ SISTERS
One:
"They shall be your bondmen for ever . . . "
Two:
". . . a stern and relentless God"
Three:
"He trod the pulpit like a giant . . . "
Four:
". . . and blood flowed in streams"
Five:
"The ground on which you stand is holy ground . . . "
PART TWO: THE GRIMKÉ FAMILY
Six:
". . . lift up thy voice like a trumpet . . . "
Seven:
". . . we will go and work together"
Eight:
"We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down . . ."
Nine:
". . . that great earthquake . . . "
Ten:
". . . go on! go on! . . . "
PART THREE: THE GRIMKÉ BROTHERS
Eleven:
"Everyone was for himself . . . "
Twelve:
". . . through the lonely dark . . . "
Thirteen:
"A cowardly and sinful silence . . . "
Fourteen:
". . . the means which God uses to arouse the sleeping conscience"
Fifteen:
"You hang him to a tree . . . "
Epilogue:
". . . the crisis has come . . . "
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