The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's Rights and

The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman’s Rights and Abolition. New York: Schocken, 1967.
Your essay should be between 1200 and 1500 words. A prime consideration in composing your paper should be demonstrating that
you read the entire book.
The assignment is based on your reading the entirety of The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's Rights and
Abolition. It is not a research project and it is not necessary to consult any other sources. Your essay must be uploaded to Turnitin.
Your essay for this assignment should be written in the first person. Choose a character who would have known the Grimke sisters,
personally or by reputation and write in that person’s voice. The character could be anybody, a slave, a white woman from the South,
an upper-class woman, an abolitionist, a slaveowner, a small farmer, an aspiring businessman. In his or her voice, write a letter to a
friend or loved one, or write a letter to the editor of your local paper, or write to a politician or some other famous person, or write an
entry in your own journal or diary. Make sure that you identify who you are. Then in either one piece of correspondence at the end of
their lives, or in multiple pieces of correspondence at various dates, share your thoughts and impressions of the Grimkes.
C What are the personal qualitites and experiences that made the Grimke sisters who they were? What challenges did they face and
how were they able to overcome them? Are there characteristics of either or both that you particualry admired?
oPlease don't summarize their entire biographies; for instance, it is not necessary in such a short space to relate many of the factual
details of their lives, like their birthdates. Rather, | would like you to identfiy what made them different from most women (and men) in
their time, and for that matter, our time.
C Someone once said that “a good biography reveals as much about an era as it does its subject.”
oMake sure to situate the Grimke sisters in their time.
oWhat events and movements were especially important and formative to the sisters?
CMake sure you are making specific references to the text.eneral Comments
C When you refer to anything that comes from the text, please cite it by placing the page number in parentheses after your reference.
This is not limited to direct quotations. It is not necessary to do any formal footnoting, but it is imperative that you make it clear where
you are getting your reference.